Dead IP35-E after a bad BIOS flash

[Rob_B]

My mobo wasn't POSTing properly (only booted past POST 1/10 times) & it would 'double boot' at all other times. If it did let me press DEL to get into BIOS it would start to go into it but freeze on a black screen with a single flashig cursor but not enter the BIOS.
All my components were ok, cmos reset but the problem remained so I went to update the BIOS, it flashed it then got to 43% on the next stage (it escapes me what it said) then froze. I left it for 45mins but it didn't move so I sadly had to pull the plug & hope!

Well, now my board is dead, it won't even POST & just keeps restarting, can anything be done apart from uying a new BIOS chip? Yes I know I shouldn't have done a flash in windows but I don't have a floppy drive & i did it with this board months before these problems started & it worked perfectly, also if the program doesnt work properly then it shouldn't be available! Latest BIOS/program was used downloaded straight from the Abit site.

Help!!

[BUFF]

you can also flash from an USB memory stick.
FlashMenu does work although there is an inherently larger risk flashing in Windows & it sounds like your PC wasn't really stable.
Also, you didn't flash with an overclock did you?

[Rob_B]

any USB stick? I have an old mp3 player that may work?..As it won't POST is this possible?

It wasn't OC'd when i flashed as i'd already reset the CMOS by then trying to get the thing to boot, when i eventually got into windows I then tried to flash it.