Hi, I just upgraded my Aopen AX6BC motherboard bios to Version R2.55 and now my computer won't start up to anything. I watched the bios install process and it failed (while installing). I was trying to fix a confliction with the ATI Rage 3d CII card and the processer. The computer description says I have a p3 but the device manager says I have a PII (causing the confliction) Please help!

If the machine won't boot to the floppy disk again there is little you can do except obtain a new BIOS chip from Aopen.

How come the update wrecked my bios in the first place?

Can be a number of reasons !! Wrong flash procedure Wrong bios type for your mother board. The bios was write protected. Did you back up the original bios ?? What method did you use to flash the rom ?? Dos based or inbuilt flash utility ?? Did you set the bios back to original deafult settings before flashing ?? Did you try reseting the CMOS to see if this may reset the bios back to the original factory settings. ??? IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool

"How come the update wrecked my bios in the first place?" 1. you did it wrong 2. you used the wrong BIOS file (possibly from the wrong model board?) 3. bad download - your new BIOS file was corrupt Those are a few possibilities. Did you try resetting the BIOS by using the ClearCMOS jumper while the system is unplugged? If that doesn't work, does the board have an ISA slot? do you have an old ISA video card laying around? you may be able to bring up the display with an ISA card, then try reflashing the BIOS. Onboard video might work too. Format a floppy, then transfer the new BIOS file (download it again) & flash utility to it. Boot off the Win98 boot floppy & select "without CD support"...when it stops at the A:\> prompt, take it out & insert the BIOS floppy. Type the name of the flash file (without the .exe), hit ENTER, & follow the instructions Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz 768MB PC3200 Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit Gamer Edition WinME/WinXP Pro

I tried the ClearCMOS jumper to no effect. I also don't have another video card. When I installed the new BIOS I had 2 files: AX6BC255.exe & AX6BC255.bin. I put those 2 files in a temp directory in c:\ by themselves. Then I restarted to a command prompt only. Then I executed the .exe file. The flash process started and in the progress bar it failed the whole way then restarted to absolutly nothing (except for power being on) then eventually shut itself off. So now I can't hit the Del button or boot off a floppy. How hard is it to get a replacement bios chip (assuming it will even come out)?

Another person said I could re-flash it providing I saved a copy of the BIOS before flashing (which I didn't to my knowlage). I don't known how to do this though.