FastTrak BIOS not showing up on boot

I have the K7N2G-ILSR with bios ver. 1.9. When I boot the computer I no longer get the screen where it says:
"FastTrak 376 (tm) Bios Version 1.00.XX
(c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Press to enter FastBuild (tm) Utility.... "
I used to get this screen before Windows XP boots, but I tried doing a modded bios and my computer wouldn't boot. So, I had to buy a new BIOS chip from BadFlash. As far as I know everything else seems to be working fine. Please help me out with this one.
jon

I've got a similar problem. I had one WD200GB SATA drive installed, striped in RAID array 0, and functioning perfectly for weeks. Today I came back to the computer and the whole machine was locked up for no clear reason. I rebooted and forgot about it. Later on I went to browse for something on the drive and it was gone! My boot drive is actually an IDE drive.
I don't get the entry to FastBuild screen on boot (where you can press Ctrl-F). The WinXP Promise FastTrak 376/378 Controller appears in the WinXP Home Device Manager, and claims to be working correctly.
I've installed the latest motherboard driver, system drivers (including Promise RAID).
If anyone can add anything that might help me out, I'd be ever grateful. There's some data on the drive that I really need. Damn you Murphy.
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