Quote Originally Posted by soundood View Post
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
Ok i will order two of them to be safe and i will let you know how it goes, again tyvm for the info , like i said b4 this is one hell of a learning error and almost cost me a good board , also i do have a USB DataTraveler

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/562

Is this good, i will never touch another bios again lol