I just started a new job and the person before me flashed a compaq presario 1200-XL106 running a AMD k6-2/475 windows 98SE /128mb ram with the wrong bios. This is my general managers machine and it is also my first project to fix this. Can this be done? How can it be done. I called compaq and they told me to take it to a dealer close to me. Help! Thanks! Cdavis

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?product=95022&os=20&cc=us&lc=en&dest_page=softwareCategory&tool=softwareCategory&dlc=en&softwareitem=36734 That is the correct firmware if it will boot to it after creating a floppy. Other than that it is a door stop MAXIMUS

You have to be able to boot the system with a bootable diskette. If you can, you can boot a minimal DOS diskette and run the flash program with the right BIOS. Most of the time this will work. You can try booting the system into the BIOS CMOS Setup and it that much works, you can change the boot sequence to boot from the diskette drive if it does not. Sometimes you have to use a jumper to clear the current CMOS settings to force it into a mode that will boot from a boot diskette. Other wise you have to find a way to reprogram the boot ROM. Some servicer have the equipment to do this or use test system board to do it with. However, for some systems, they have to be sent back to the manufacture to have the rom module replace on the board (in other words get a new board).