Re: busted BIOS part 2..

In message <Jhuce.17584$If1.4024994@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, j.b. miller <invalidjbmiller@xxxxxxxxx> writes
Well I've finally given up on this mobo...
Shame, you have could tried clearing the CMOS.
You also mention that the BIOS isn't what you expected, have you considered it might be the wrong one?

When the machine POSTs there should be a string of characters on the bottom of the screen, you can use this to identify the motherboard, write the numbers down and Google for them, check if the google results match the board you have, if not someone might have flashed the wrong BIOS onto it, to recover you may be able to persuade it to perform a flash recovery boot. 

seem a shame to toss the thing into the landfill...
P3-733....128M.20GHd,etc...


oh well...... more crap into the dirt...

jay






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