Hi. I have a Micron P3-733. MB is Tyan S1854 AGPX4-PCI-ISA with <nobr><a class="iAs" style="border-bottom:darkgreen 1px solid;text-decoration:underline;color:darkgreen;background-color:transparent;" href="http://itxt.vibrantmedia.com/al.asp?ipid=7&cc=us&cf=1&ai=12362116&di=49520&ts=20040108170333&redir=http://www61.overture.com/d/sr/?xargs=02u3hs9yoaj1VuvTDDhAylX7RLENVYxQaWcCEI45bIe6FbICAyP8Asiekn19uHlgSmggfyOJu%2BP%2F9PM%2BwT7Wfpx9dN%2FbS4IQXWvBdh3TKFcTnqSoCo6zRQ9EjIFWPko0JiXBwPUC9fsQTWd%2Bub76vzrra0rXW7mYf4pQ2pzrI%2BSYqaATcfSG5yGYsmI4JKBzMaw4wlXY%2FCMJWFJRfTp1YJgmks5F7Se0stggaAlfRbg7fyzffb0U5aVAFqWqIk5ApMlyXEgg3zPVUf2p0yCi%2B2aIDPyGcBf0UFrVw%3D" target="_blank" oncontextmenu="return false;" onmouseover="kwE(event,49520);" onmouseout="kwL(event);" onmousemove="kwM(49520);">Award BIOS</nobr> 4.51 (something). Anyway I bought a <nobr><a class="iAs" style="border-bottom:darkgreen 1px solid;text-decoration:underline;color:darkgreen;background-color:transparent;" href="http://itxt.vibrantmedia.com/al.asp?ipid=7&cc=us&cf=1&ai=12362116&di=64398&ts=20040108170333&redir=http://www61.overture.com/d/sr/?xargs=02u3hs9yoaj1VuuTDDhgyG3yGjYOqBpA5DyAghliB7qR%2F4DSWqzQfX24a1xLYRP%2F4f%2FWNWbx92nbHQ0l3UQ%2Fjtzpu8IytMoFCMJLEvARJWmqqApVhb2NL8LMrqNi08G4a%2Bsf4fxs3VrDP6fYrtQSeDx68jnMlRrSy5xe6iDWVGTg8VQGnG5PwfZ7tiEy9cziSMEbPonqFknt940oR0anlzZr3QGhv7Fud52i1Ui1hHKyLOR7pCis6py0N%2B3rxFGAuhQqRv61gaX1U%3D" target="_blank" oncontextmenu="return false;" onmouseover="kwE(event,64398);" onmouseout="kwL(event);" onmousemove="kwM(64398);">flash</nobr> BIOS upgrade to install my 160GB HD. After the flash, and following the instructions to the letter, I chose Exit and it rebooted. Everything looked right before this, now it doesn't do anything. Is there a way to purge the old BIOS upgrade and hard reset it back to factory default? Please email me as I don't have access to this site often. Thank you.

Hi. I have a Micron P3-733. MB is Tyan S1854 AGPX4-PCI-ISA with Award BIOS 4.51 (something). Anyway I bought a BIOS upgrade to install my 160GB HD. After the flash, and following the instructions to the letter, I chose Exit and it rebooted. Everything looked right before this, now it doesn't do anything. Is there a way to purge the old BIOS upgrade and hard reset it back to factory default? Please email me as I don't have access to this site often. Thank you.

So you did the bios upgrade and on the first boot afterwards everything was dead? If so you're probably screwed. There's no default bios to fall back on. If the bios chip on the motherboard is removable and you could locate another bios chip from the same model motherboard (or close enough so it would boot) you could do what I think is referred to as a 'hot' upgrade. You take out the bad bios chip and put the good one in it's place--but only so it's loosely connected. Then boot the computer. When it's done with the booting process, carefully remove the good chip and replace it with the bad one. Then do the bios upgrade again--preferrably with a different upgrade version from the motherboard manufacturer's site. Most bios' now aren't removable so the above may not work. But that's the only way I know to inexpensively fix the problem. You might want to contact whoever it was you bought the upgrade from and see what they have to say about it. I'll email this to you also.

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A while ago I had bought a 40GB Maxtor HD to install on a Win98FE machine with the Award 4.51. The Maxtor documentation stated that the BIOS utility would work to allow for a HD larger than 32GB except for those with the Award 4.51 BIOS. When you say 'nothing happened' do you mean when trying to boot with the 160GB HD or with the previous one. I am suggesting that perhaps you can still run the smaller HD in hopes that the Flash did not toast your chipset. Hoping that 'nothing happened' means when trying to boot with the 160GB HD. HTH Bryan

De Cochran emailed me that the bios upgrade actually worked OK. The problem was he had 2 video cards and the upgrade reset the cmos settings so that output was sent to the card that wasn't connected to the monitor. When he connected the monitor to the other card everything was fine.