Hi, I recently flashed my computer's BIOS to the newest version. But after a successful flash, and upon botting into Windows, I get a blue screen error, but it is only displayed for half a second then my computer will reboot. I've tried entering into safe mode, same result, and pressing F8 and selecting last known good config, still same results. Any ideas? Should I run fixmbr? Please help, thank you in advance

When it boots, does it beep to signify a successfull POST? How far does it progress in the boot stage?

yeah, it POSTS successfully, when trying to boot into regualr Windows, the "Windows'...etc show, but after a few seconds, an instant blue screen folowed by restart. When trying safe mode, it gets to giveio.dll or something then restarts.

Can you get to safe mode? If so, boot to safe mode, and disable the video driver. See if that works. If so, you'll need to re-download the video driver from the mfg.

Another thought , if you have ( you can get off the net , via google ) your motherboard manual & then maually put in the bios settings . Once up & running , you can copy them to floppy using something like this . ======================================= http://www.help.com/cat/2/191/192/hc/index-9.html?tag=st.hp.cat.hc.9 BIOS protection Q. How does the boot-block feature in my BIOS work? A. The BIOS (basic input/output system) is a set of permanent instructions recorded onto a flash memory chip on your computer's motherboard. Today, virtually all BIOS updates can be downloaded from the PC maker's Web site. To update the BIOS, you run a program that flashes the chip. If your BIOS chip fails or gets corrupted during a flash upgrade, the entire BIOS could be rendered useless and prevent your PC from booting. Manufacturers guard against this by protecting a small portion of the BIOS known as the boot block. Before you update the BIOS chip, the flash program can read your current BIOS and copy it on diskette. If you flash the wrong file, the boot-block code in your BIOS automatically recovers the file from diskette and restores your original BIOS.

Try disabling your Power settings in the bios. The Bios update could have updated the ACPI settings and may be conflicting with Windows. I f all else fails, try to boot with "failsafe" values in the bios. As suggested by Johnw, a mainboard manual would be helpful in setting up the bios if you are unsure what settings to make. Good luck.