I couldn't find a bios on iwill's site, but a google search revealed this page:
http://www.zdnet.de/treiber/man_prod_ud ... ud-wc.html
I got the 2000.12.12 bios from there and used the awdflash program that came with it (7.76B, (c)2000)
i clean booted (held down shift key to bypass startup files) from a win98 diskette and ran "AWDFLASH.EXE /CC /CD /CP"
the current bios is:
03/22/1999-i440BX-W977EF-2A69KI3IC-00
thanks for any help in this matter