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I really Just want to rule out that a bad floppy is not being used. Especially Since it gave you that FDD Error in AWD FLASH.

To check the floppy

Start > My Computer > Right Click Floppy Drive > Properties > Tools > Error Checking > Check Now > Select both options > Run The Scan

yes your just checking the floppy to be sure it's ok

are you using winxp?

Well you could try uniflash although at the time when my bios was corrupted I don't think nforce2 chipsets were fully supported. But this happened to me back in may and i heard there was supposed to be a newer version on the way. By chance when you went to flash the new bios were you given an option...

Also are you sure you have the right bios for your pcb revision?

hmm ok did you try the other method and just use the AWDFLASH.EXE off the mainboard cd with this AUTOEXEC.BAT:

@ECHO OFF

AWDFLASH AN8D1008.BIN /py /sn /cd /cc /cp /R /nbl

and are you using the image that you attempted to flash before the bios was corrupted?

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