I've waited a few days, before posting again, in case anyone else had any better 
solutions to suggest. But it seems no one else has.

The confusion, unfortunately, continues. There is no such O/S as "ME 2005". There 
is only Windows Millenium, launched in the year 2000. You need to be very accurate 
with your terminology, or it will be impossible to give you any usable advice.

I want to repeat the most important part of what I said originally: if Windows won't 
boot, you have installed an incompatible ("wrong") BIOS.

This is down to the engineering of your motherboard. Your original BIOS version was 
engineered specifically for the set of components (chipset) that the motherboard 
manufacturer used on that board. It is perfectly possible that the BIOS was unique 
to that board, if the board uses a non-standard chipset configuration.

The BIOS software is written without specific knowledge of what components are in 
use on your m/board. So updates to the BIOS may not work, if the board manufacturer 
"cheated" a little, by tweaking the original BIOS to work with its board.

To re-write the BIOS is possible, but it takes a lot of programming ability. I know 
of one chap who re-wrote his BIOS, but it took him upwards of 30 hours to figure 
out what he needed to do.

In practical terms, your m/board may have reached an age where it would make better 
sense to retire it, and buy a more modern board that comes with the advanced BIOS 
you now need.

Ed







On Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:58 pm, FreonStud wrote:

>Sorry for the confusion. I am running ME 2005. I am 110% I am flashing the right 

>BIOS. Tried latest two using ASUS ezflash 2 which confirms file before it flashes. 

>Cannot figure out  why some BIOS's will boot Windows and latest two won't. Asus 
support 

>does not know either. Frustrating.

>

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