2000 mobo doesn't have BootBlock?

Hot-swapping and Boot-Block flash & Boot block flash and floppy support
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yoelcohen12
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This is another sad story about a guy (me) who wanted to do something nice for his dad and consiquently ruined his pc.

It's an Award BIOS and when the pc boots it only says that there's a floppy error (code 80) and the system hangs.

This is the result of flashing the board with an unsuitable BIOS (it seemed the right one at the time...)

Problem is: It's manufactured by HIS (Hightech) and has no formal BIOS to download.

My question is: Could it be that a 02/18/2000 model does not have BOOTBLOCK? When booting I don't get a "Award BootBlock BIOS 1.0" message, only a floppy error. It's a 2MB chip and the board seems modern enough.

Thanks for reading this - I'll aprreciate any insight
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Bootblock recovery is activated only when the BIOS is not flashed correctly. Your BIOS is flashed correctly but is not suitable for your board. Try disabling almost everything except Primary IDE controller and try to boot from HDD - if you can, you can reflash the BIOS. Otherwise, you will need to hot-flash.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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yoelcohen12
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Thanks a lot for your help.
Eventually, I had to reprogram the chip, though, because nothing had helped.
Keep up the good job! And thanks again.
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