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No!!!

Didn`t work.

Worrst still, I crunched the corner off an 800MHz Duron :(

I won`t mess with it again, will wait for the new chip to arrive and then I can test that Duron at the same time.

By the way - it`s not the crunched Duron thats causing the problem - definately the fact that the ...

I`m just doing this now.

It involves taking the PSU and various bits out of this (working) PC.

Will be offline a while but will return with my findings.

Calder

Thanks for all your responses.

Sadly, I think I will give up. I threw all my old ISA IO cards a few years ago. And despite having three PC running in this house and two in pieces, none of them have ISA IO cards OR the same BIOS socket as the Epox.

I am now writing a cheque out for £6 to Epox for a ...

I ruined my 8KTA3+ mobo a few months back - this was a bad flash scenario.

I have just pulled it out of the cupboard in the hope that I can re-flash it.

I get the Award Bootblock message and have created a floppy with AWARDFLASH and a suitable BIOS file and AUTOEXEC.BAT.

The floppy seems to start ...