just so we're clear here...you know this is a last ditch effort and it is quite likely that your cmos chip is bad.
http://www.thecomput...otforsteely.isoYou need to burn this image to a CD and boot your computer with it--this is different than burning a file to a CD. If you do not know how to burn an ISO image, then download the following program to a Windows XP machine, install it.
make certain you download the proper installation for your version of windows (service pack 1 or sp2)
http://isorecorder.a...isorecorder.htmAfter installation, right click the bootforsteely.iso file you downloaded above and choose COPY IMAGE TO CD.
Then reboot your broken PC with the CD in the CD-ROM drive--make sure that the PC is set to boot to cd rom first in the bios boot order
This is a DOS boot cd with your flash bios update on it
It is not automated
PLEASE -- ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO UPDATE THEIR BIOS DO NOT USE THIS__IT WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS MACHINE AND ANY USE OF IT WILL KILL YOUR PC
Set the PC to boot to CD first
After the machine boots, it will look just like a windows 98 bootdisk starting from a floppy
Choose START COMPUTER WITH CD ROM SUPPORT
The boot setup will complain that it cannot find a fat32 drive if your pc is set up with ntfs--that's ok--we do not need to access the drive
at the a:\ prompt, type
look up a couple lines and you will see the drive letter assigned to the cd-rom
Drive X = DRIVER MSCD001 unit 1
whatever x is, type
X:
<enter>
now type
FLASH802a.exe VDC49.Bin
<enter>
Follow prompts to flash bios