HELP NEEDED!!! BIOS hangs, is my board dead?

It is probably my fault for trying to install a custom bios but I acknowledge the fact that I was stupid. At POST it will hang after Auto detection of my drives. According to the D-Bracket it hangs at Initializing Floppy Drive Controller but it never makes it to the Promise Bios. Is there anything I can do? Since I can't reflash I feel pretty stuck... Is my board hosed or is this something I can get repaired? Please, any suggestions are very welcome.
My board is a 845-Ultra AR by the way

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Originally posted by Ralf
How old is your computer??
Take it back to where you purchased it from but don't tell em you played with the bios !!
;-0
Not a nice thing to do!

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