System won't boot after flashing bios

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I have an AMD64 3200 cpu on MSI K8N Neo Platinum mainboard, NVidia
NForce 3
drivers, 2 250GB SATA Drives & 1 180GB ATA drive. WinXP and Fedora Core
3 installed on the ATA drive with grub boot loader, boot partition is
FAT32.

I flashed the bios with the latest from MSI, with the flash update
successful.
Now the sytem won't boot at all, the bios screen won't even come up, I
just
get a flashing cursor. I don't have a floppy drive. I assume the
mainboard
bios is corrupt, how can I boot the system and reflash the bios?
Thanks,
 
I have an AMD64 3200 cpu on MSI K8N Neo Platinum mainboard, NVidia
NForce 3
drivers, 2 250GB SATA Drives & 1 180GB ATA drive. WinXP and Fedora Core
3 installed on the ATA drive with grub boot loader, boot partition is
FAT32.

I flashed the bios with the latest from MSI, with the flash update
successful.
Now the sytem won't boot at all, the bios screen won't even come up, I
just
get a flashing cursor. I don't have a floppy drive. I assume the
mainboard
bios is corrupt, how can I boot the system and reflash the bios?
Thanks,
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find your MoBo manual. In it will be a section on the BIOS. Within this
section there should be a pic of the MoBo showing the location of a jumper
socket for resetting to the default BIOS.

Basically what you do is, with all power to the comp OFF, open the case set
the jumper to its reset position leave for a minute or so then replace it to
it operating position. Reassemble case and power up. This will have reset
the BIOS to its original default settings.

dj
 
Glittery Gary said:
find your MoBo manual. In it will be a section on the BIOS. Within this
section there should be a pic of the MoBo showing the location of a jumper
socket for resetting to the default BIOS.

Basically what you do is, with all power to the comp OFF, open the case
set the jumper to its reset position leave for a minute or so then replace
it to it operating position. Reassemble case and power up. This will have
reset the BIOS to its original default settings.

dj
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further to, taken from a web page,
This might sound like a trivial thing to talk about, but did you notice the
clear CMOS jumper has been replaced with an actual button? It's easier to
use overclocking too far means the CMOS has to be reset, and something all
motherboard manufacturers should have implemented a long time ago!



dj
 
Glittery Gary said:
find your MoBo manual. In it will be a section on the BIOS. Within this
section there should be a pic of the MoBo showing the location of a jumper
socket for resetting to the default BIOS.

Basically what you do is, with all power to the comp OFF, open the case
set the jumper to its reset position leave for a minute or so then replace
it to it operating position. Reassemble case and power up. This will have
reset the BIOS to its original default settings.

dj
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