Now all that remains is for you to flash your BIOS with the new image. AMI's Flash utility is a little nicer to use than Award's, but does the same job nonetheless.

   First you need to grab a copy of FLASH that works with your BIOS. The 7ZMM boards want FLASH 8.48. Drop the flash utility into the directory with your BIOS file. Now, flashing the BIOS should be done in STRAIGHT DOS only. Most utils won't run in Windows anyway, but need to be careful, you don't want a dumb windows hiccup screwing up your board. Boot off a boot disk that doesn't load any extra drivers (not even CD-ROM drivers), or if you use Win9x, hit F8 during bootup off the hard drive and select Safe Mode Command Prompt Only from the menu.

   Once you're in the directory, run flash with your BIOS file:

flash bios.bin /A

   This will automatically load the BIOS and flash your chip. If you rather go through FLASH and it's prompts manually, leave off the /A from the command line.

   Once you're finished, do a hard reset or turn your PC off and back on again. Now, all that's left to do is to admire your handiwork:

  Now, chances are that you'll get a CMOS/GPNV Bad or CMOS Checksum error when you boot. This is normal since the CMOS options are reset by a BIOS flash. You'll just need to go back into CMOS setup and change your options back the way you like them, and save it.

But But.. What About PhoenixBIOS?

   Well...unfortunately I've hardly found any information about your BIOS logos.. all I can say is that the newer ones use an EPA format like the Award BIOS does. CBROM doesn't seem to work though...

Files/Proggies

• Blank 132x132 PCX with AMI Palette [2K]

• AMIBCP Bios Editor [278K]

   Again, I won't link to any flash programs here since different motherboards need different versions. Grab a copy off your motherboard CD

   So there ya go. Even more reason to hack up your system BIOS now then before! :) Happy Modding!

Cheers,
Doc