If I unplug the machine's power to shut it down and then plug it back in I can reboot OK. It will continue to boot fine from that point if I only choose "Shut Down" and then turn the machine back on, but boot hangs if I choose "Restart". I tried clearing the CMOS and reloading defaults but it didn't help. APM is enabled (system CPU is a PIII 450).
I wonder if the reason this happened was because I backed up the old Bios using it's actual name, "BE+_20A1.bin", instead of naming it something like "oldbios.bin"(?) (the new flashed file was 6BEP2DA1.bin). The old file wasn't actually written to a back-up, so SOMETHING must have gone wrong...
I have tried reflashing the Bios, but now I just get an "Unknown Flash Type!" error message. BTW, the boot-up screen shows the correct Bios version as per the flash update. I'm thinking the Bios might be damaged, but I'm also wondering if re-installing Windows 2000 is worth a try before condemming it.
Any suggestions are appreciated...
