You seem to be making life as hard on yourself as you can.
You only need a DOS bootup diskette to install a new bios. Just make sure the current bios is set to boot to floppy drive as 1st priority.
Ok I decided to put the board back in and actually got it working again...but I'm not sure exactly what the problem was. I unlplugged either a pci card or a hard drive randomly and finally got the thing to post (yes I even tapped on the bios chip with the backside of a screwdriver). Once I...
I already did the cmos trick, I moved the jumper, I even took out the battery and powered up without it. All I get is "beep...beep...beep...beep".
So depressing, I put my old Athlon board back in just so I would have a computer for the 3 day weekend.
<cry..sob...wail...pout>
*****WARNING****
I just flashed the new bios, the VN210203 one, and it took down my motherboard. I used the award flashing tool on the chaintech website...the flash seemed to go fine, but when I rebooted...the motherboard just made a series of long beeps and never posted.
It's quite a...
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