been there done that! insert original asus CD-ROM and press ALT-F2 on boot On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 13:48, K. Spearel wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:24, Linux wrote: > > anyway that is all pointless now as I > > now have a dead mb after a failed bios flash %£$£^&&*%%$ and it is only 5 > > days old > > > > Jeff (very pissed off) > > Jeff, > > Asus supposedly has a remedy for this...haven't had the misfortune to > need the procedure but it would be worth a try. > > "The CrashFree BIOS 2 feature now includes the BIOS auto-recovery > function in a support CD. Users can reboot their system through the > support CD when a bootable disk is not available, and go through the > simple BIOS auto-recovery process. > ASUS motherboards now enable users to enjoy this protection feature > without the need to pay for an optional ROM" > > I might also suggest asking on the AMD64 list...someone there may have > some suggestions. > > HTH, > > KAS >