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If you have a recovery jumper or a clear cmos jumper or a safe jumper try setting them.It should reset the cmos to the original IBM as sold settings.Then try using the bios agent to see if it did.If so use the info from it to get the lastet on the IBM site Good Luck

The bios agent I got from the link at the third post in this string.I copied it to a floppy after downloading.I Booted from a start up disc then ran the agent from another.The info gave me exactly the machine type and the exact model.From this I found the update utility and supporting file on the IB...

I originally got my bios to flash using the IBM flash under OS utility that was on the same site.I ran the flash os file and this put a new folder in the computer called flash this was all done in windows xp .Checking it I only found one file it.some sort of data file.Iforget which other file I ran ...

i forgot to tell you that i did not change any jumper setting while doing the above flash routine. it took a few sec before it booted. sorry

:D :D :D I fixed it.heres how I did it.I used bios agent to get the motherboard machine type out of the bios string,in my case it was 6269 h2u. I went to IBM site and searched for that number and ended up with netvista computers,try starting there.I found a long list of bios upgrades there.Check the...

thank for the IBM info.tried it and found all the tools there and their latest update.I got it to work and presently have the latest from them installed but I still get the 167 post error code.I used the pt1z21usa file to accomplish the upgrade. I don't know if the latest upgrade that you were told ...

I have the same board with the same problem.So far I have run across info that stated the cmos has a built in admin pasword .I suspect this is true because after pulling the battery for a few hours, upon rebooting there was an admi pasword set in the bios which did not have it set originally.If u ha...