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.

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