Need help -I fragged my bios

My system was intermittantly having problems with the alarm going off for no apparent reason; considering the BIOS had never been updated I "thought" I'd try that. It stopped partway through with an error message. When I tryed to re-boot my optical drives act like they are being accessed, but my floppy drive doesn't even when I try the Ctrl-Home force update. If I put the AMIBOOT.ROM on a CD or DVD would Ctrl-Home work from it?
As of now my optical drives cycle endlessly while my monitor stays dark with nary a flicker of life.

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Jocko
I'm ready to try. Am I correct that considering the circumstances the only drive I need hooked up is my floppy? I've got access to two other floppies but I don't know if one is any good and the other is a USB connection which I doubt I can use in these conditions. I was wondering what MASI was an acronym for.[/quote
Hi
Explained above MASI was typo, Should be MSI
As Southmike mentioned there was a long thread on this a while ago. Concensus was that as above, PCI vid card and fresh ram, with total discharge was only way to reset the board - but if its the chip thats dud, then that won't help, if its the floppy drive then it will. The PCI card is made by MSI to allow soldered bios boards to be reflashed, it contains its own bios, and when plugged into a PCI slot will start the mobo, once up and running, you flash the bios, then remove PCI card - very simple. I think its called a TL 64 or 68, but I'm probably wrong there. I think MSI only issue them to those who have a large requirement for this type of thing, the rest of us have to send the boards in to whoever has a PCI card.
Try a change of floppy drive, and a differant cable, its worth a try.
Cheers
jocko

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