Quote Originally Posted by XRogerX View Post
ok i dont want to mess this up even more then what it is , so you telling me i can remove the chip while the pc is on and but the old on back ?

that sound messed up but then again i dont know anything about hotflashes and to answer your question yes i do have XP
exactly, the process is known as 'hot flashing' , you would use the new chip to boot the board into windows, once in windows, swap the good chip for the bad chip, then flash the old chip from windows, if there is no pysical damage to the chip then it should flash ok,

or you could judt order two bios chips at the same tim, keeps one safe incase of bios flash again.

the easiest way i have found to flash bios is to use USB drive that emulates a floppy, info to do this is on the abit site, under beta bios, found here

http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=121953