If a BIOS upgrades procedure is stopped in the middle for any reason, e.g.
system hangs, power failure, operator abort, etc., the BIOS is destroyed and
can not be "flashed" any more. You then must buy another BIOS and/or have
the factory re-program it.

Since you said you tried a BIOS from another mobo, I suspect in addition to
the above, you may have damaged the mobo with static charge, or the BIOS is
not the correct one (must be exactly the same), or a number of many other
possibilities too numerous to troubleshoot over the net.

With that said, after installing the new BIOS, did you reset it with the
BIOS jumper?

Daniel Wysocki
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-----Original Message-----
From: Saeed Al-Saeed <[log in to unmask]>



>Dear all,
>
>        I have a system with P1 233MMX processor, and a motherboard from
Amptron
>company. I tried to upgrade the Bios, but in the middle, the system hangs.
>then I restarted the system, but it dead. I have tried many times to turn
>off /on the system but it is dead. after that I downloaded the Bios from
>Amptron's web page then I wrote it to the flash memory that on the
>motherboard using an advanced memory writer in the university lab. and it
>was written successfully but even the system did not starts.. I tried start
>the system using another motherboard's Bios chip. but I couldn't.
>Can any body help me to get over this problem.

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