HELP!! Just killed an old mobo!

Hot-swapping and Boot-Block flash & Boot block flash and floppy support
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Phoebus
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Hi.

I was fooling around with an old system which has an ATREND (I think) mobo, an ATC-1000 with Interl 42830FX chipset.

I tried to update the bios using uniflash and it gave me a warning, something about bootblock (if I remember correctly) not being present but I went ahead anyway. Uniflash gave me a "Success" message and after rebooting... well, NOTHING!!

Oh yeah, I backed up the previous bios but I have no way to access it now. When I turn on the system I just get a blank screen, nothing else.

I would REALLY appreciate any help on this.

Thanx!
Phoebus
Rainbow
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There are more versions of Atrend ATC-1000 board - v1, v2, v3 and v4.
v1, v2: 05/28/96-i430FX-2A59CA29C-00, ATC-1000 INTEL 82430FX BIOS VER:2.2 05-28-96
v3: 06/13/96-i430FX-2A59CA29C-00, ATC-1000 INTEL 430FX BIOS VER:2.31I 06-13-96
v4: 06/13/96-i430FX-2A59CA29C-00, ATC-1000 INTEL 430FX BIOS VER2.41 06-13-96
v4(?): 08/25/1998-i430FX-ATC-1000C-00, ATC-1000 VER:3.0 01
?: 01/13/1999-i430FX-787IF-ATC-1000C-00, ATC-1000 INTEL 430FX BIOS VER:2.50

Does the board beep or read from floppy?
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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Phoebus
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Nope, the board doesn't beep or give any errors. It's just dead!
Rainbow
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You can hot-flash http://rainbow.ht.st/hardware/hotflash.html. Identify the board version first, so you can download the correct BIOS to hot-flash.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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