Dead Motherboard or Corrupt Bios?

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Astrolite
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I have a Biostar motherboard, with Award Bios, which blue screened on me and since will not post. It has blue screened in the past and I have always been able to recover by setting a jumper to clear the CMOS. This time even this does not work. All I get is one long beep after another.

The power supply spins up the fans and hardrive, I have tried different memory sticks in all of the slots, a different video card and even a different CPU to no avail. Therefore I believe the problem is with the motherboard.

My question is this. Is it possible that the Bios could be corrupted? It seems that most of the Bios problems mentioned on this forum are related to a bad flash. Is it possible for the Bios to become corrupt during a blue screen event?

I'm trying to decide whether it would be worth trying a new Bios chip or whether I should just replace the motherboard.

Thanks
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