BIOS hangs. I think I flashed my BIOS with the wrong update. I have a HP 760n. There is a ASUS P4B266-LA MOBO in it. The problem is that I went to the ASUS website to find a BIOS update and found the P4B266 w/o the *-LA* and flashed my BIOS. Come to find out I should have used the one from HP.

The machine will Boot to this point.
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The Award copyright....etc

ASUS P4B266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1010

Intel Pentium(R) 1800MHz
Memory Test : 524288K OK

Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A
Initialize Plug and Play Cards...
PNP Init Completed

Trend ChipAwayVirus(R) On Guard

Detecting Primary Master ... IC35L120AVVA07-0
(I unplugged everything else)

CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded
Hardware Monitor found an error. Enter Power setup menu for details.

Press F1 to contiune, DEL to enter SETUP
08/06/2002--I845--P4B266
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And the cursor is right under the P in SETUP flashing at a faster rate than normal.

I also have one of the post boards and it is giving error 4E - Check manufacture POST loop.

I have tried hitting every key. Tried unplugging everything down to the CPU. I do get a different error when I unplug everything and try to start it.

Can't boot to floopy. Tried hitting DEL and F1 on boot to enter SETUP, can't.

Please help. Please don't tell me I need a new motherboard.

I do know for a fact that I flashed with the wrong BIOS. I DO have a copy of the OLD BIOS, but I can't get to a dos prompt to flash it again. I should have used the one from HP's website.

Using another computer:

copy the old bios file to a blank disk
rename to awdbios.rom

Now place the disk in your "dead" machine and boot.

I kow this works when the bios is completely corrupt but you do seem to get somewhere so It might not work

Tried that. No go. The PC makes a call to the floppy drive, but it is real quick (as if to make sure it is there).

Any other ideas????? PLEASE

Try a bootable diskette and no hardfile attached. If you can get it to read a plain DOS diskette, you have a chance of flashing the BIOS.

If you have a USB attached keyboard, you should try a PS/2 plug keyboard instead.

It might be necessary to try removing the CMOS battery if you can to kill CMOS setting so it comes up with a default.

You may have to look for a Flash Eprom on the system board, it its not internal to one of the modules, and have it flashed with the correct BIOS on a different system.

you could check out this site:
www.badflash.com