My computer has developed the "blinking box" syndrome

I have a feeling this might be related to my hard disk, but I'm not sure.

At either rate, it froze up completely today. I restarted it, and then it gave me a bad disk read error and prompted me to Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot. I did that a few times, and now nothing at all happens. It turns on, but nothing comes onto the screen.

The computer is a custom-build (with an overclocked processor). I de-overclocked it, but that did nothing. The hard drive model is a MAXTOR 2 Hard Drive 600GB Raid 0 7200RPM

If nothing else, I would like to save the hard drive data. All of my music is on it and I don't have recent backups. However, the main priorty is to at least get the thing to boot to the BIOS screen, so i can make it boot from the CD-Rom with the Windows install CD in it.

Any help with this would result in the most massive props ever received in your entire life.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ah, I thought I forgot something.

Stats:
Processor: Intel 3.4 Ghz overclocked to 3.92 Ghz
Motherboard: Asus Proactive AI P5GD1 (LGA 775, FSB 800 Mhz
Memory: 2x 1 GB Corsair 240-PIN DDR 400 SDRAM Dual Channel with Aluminium Heat Spreader
Storage: 1 MAXTOR 2 Hard Drive 600GB (Raid 0, 7200RPM)
Video Card: Ati Radeon X1600PRO 512MB PCI Express
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 7.1 24-BIT
Operating System Windows XP Professional SP 2
Power Supply: 600 Watt

The parts are only 6 months old, and I bought them new. I will look into resetting the BIOS.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Ulysses:
I triet resetting the BIOS (remove the CMOS battery , wait 10 seconds, put it back in), but that did nothing. From what I can tell, it's not starting the hard drives (2 300 GB linked via RAID).

And yeah, russ, it's not getting to the BIOS. It might be BIOS corruption, but unsure how to fix it as it won't boot with the Winodws CD. I'll give the motherboard CD a try.

EDIT:
Won't let me boot with the motherboard CD. I put the CD in and the CD drive seemed to try to read it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I will try that right now.

EDIT: Nope, didn't work. Could it just be the processor/motherboard crapped out (and if so, how would I tell)?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The RAID is mirrored, so I'll give that a shot tomorrow.

Thank you all for your help. It's been much appreciated.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My guess it is the processor or motherboard (hopefully just the processor, because my motherobard was a BITCH to put in. The monitor at no time gets sent a signal, and I don't get any beep codes.

I didn't install anything recently, but I did have to forcibly restart the computer after a crash.

How ya doing, buddy?

LiquidAcid:
Good idea, but I just sent the compy over to CompUSA to take a look at it.

Anywho, thank you all once again for giving a shit.

FELIPE NO