Take a look at this site: http://www.fic.com.tw/techsupport/faq/faqsbios.htm#bios7 This procedure is for FIC manufactured motherboards, but this procedure may work on other AMI BIOS's... Make sure you are using an ISA video card and have a bootable floppy - you may also need to find a Boot-Block BIOS for that board... Have you tried searching the Gateway site for BIOS recovery procedures? Terry Warren t-warren@xxxxxxxx Blackfoot, Idaho Computer/Electromechanical Tech. On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 03:35:59 -0700 "Ndegwa, Amos" <A.NDEGWA@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I tried updating this AMI OAAES052 BIOS but this process was not > successful. When I power On the machine it just keeps on giving > short beeps > whilst the FDD LED is ON. The interval changes when I put in a > diskette. > > Does someone know how to recover this flash BIOS. > > Thanks > Amos Ndegwa > Computer Hardware Support > ILRI Kenya > Web http://www.cgiar.org/ilri/ > ILRI is a Future Harvest Centre of the > Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research ------------------------------------------ To REMOVE your email address, click here: http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html To CHANGE your email address, click here: http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html ------------------------------------------ ***NEW*** Tips Added Instantly!!!*** Submit Repair Tips here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/