I recently flashed my BIOS on my ASUS computer using
their windows flash utility which caused my computer to
not recognize my hard drive. I reset the CMOS as suggested
and attempted to restart with no luck. Now I get a message
that says "System failed CPU test." In the process I seem
to have lost the power supply also. It seems that I may
need to reinstall Windows. I'd hate to loose all the Data
I have on the drive.
Is there a way to recover this data and the drive and not
have to reload and do the activation process again?

IF you have to reinstall Windows, assuming you fix your motherboard
problems, then boot from the XP CD and do a repair install. It will just
install and repair the previous installation.

"Lyndon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I recently flashed my BIOS on my ASUS computer using
> their windows flash utility which caused my computer to
> not recognize my hard drive. I reset the CMOS as suggested
> and attempted to restart with no luck. Now I get a message
> that says "System failed CPU test." In the process I seem
> to have lost the power supply also. It seems that I may
> need to reinstall Windows. I'd hate to loose all the Data
> I have on the drive.
> Is there a way to recover this data and the drive and not
> have to reload and do the activation process again?

"Lyndon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:13c1101c412a0$322ffe90$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I recently flashed my BIOS on my ASUS computer using
> their windows flash utility which caused my computer to
> not recognize my hard drive. I reset the CMOS as suggested
> and attempted to restart with no luck. Now I get a message
> that says "System failed CPU test." In the process I seem
> to have lost the power supply also. It seems that I may
> need to reinstall Windows. I'd hate to loose all the Data
> I have on the drive.
> Is there a way to recover this data and the drive and not
> have to reload and do the activation process again?

It sounds more that there's a problem with your motherboard than with the
software, considering you aren't at a point where it's even starting to read
from the drive yet.

As far as having lost the power supply, if it was dead, you wouldn't get
anything -- no fans, no lights, no post.

My bet is that the bios flash and whatever you did afterward caused the
problem.

Also...when you flash a bios, generally it resets everything to the
defaults. Have you gone through the bios and changed everything to what it
should be for your system?