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Are you sure that board supports the 1800XP out of the box?

I dislike jumper-free mode, myself.

http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/mb/socka/k ... 33-105.pdf

This would have been helpful to know from the onset.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ja ... ka+gateway

By the date, it should. And judging by the nfo, it seems you already are. Was there an error or something?

B3 = BCM, possibly QS440BX.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:fKy ... B3EC&hl=en

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/8774/

http://www.packardbell.co.uk/support/node221.asp

Thanks for reading the FAQ and the rules.

D4 means it's a DFI board of some sort.

Perhaps a dead battery lost the HDD setup information. For those older drives, you needed to specify it manually. Do you have the setup program?

Is there an Enable BIOS Update setting in the CMOS setup?
Which flash program are you using, and which version of it?
Are you booting to a clean DOS prompt?

You can get the latest BIOS and flasher here:
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/

Google loves you.

http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/download/mindex.htm

http://www.aopen.com/tech/jumper/ap53/default.htm

Or it might jump to 3.5v. Risky experiment.

http://www.aopen.com/tech/download/mbbios/mbflash.htm
http://www.aopen.com/tech/download/mbbios/ap53.htm

I take it your machine isn't bootable? This should help:

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/

It probably doesn't matter who made it, since only HP will support it. Here's a link:

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/h ... 62764.html

Sorry, AJZ, what was I thinking?

You don't need to format; just boot to Safe Mode DOS Prompt.