Jay J <jay-tclug at 3pound.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > We fell victim to a faulty (or incompatible) AMI BIOS flash utility > distributed by PC-Chips, now I'm on a crusade to return this obsolete > POS to it's somewhat-operational state. [snip] > We're not alone: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:a7f0cefcab475ce2:www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000657.html+chipset/flash+m571&hl=en > Following up to Bill's post, and looking at the page above, what have you tried with putting the ROM on a diskette and attempting to fix it that way? I see that you may have to activate the boot-block BIOS by pressing CTRL+HOME at boot. Presuming that you had a `good' flash, and the checksums were properly computed, the system might not know that it's loading an improper BIOS, so it might have to be told to look at the diskette. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Always draw your curves, / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ _then_ plot the data. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]