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Flashing the BIOS is not as simple as it sounds.
The Q-Flash utility that is built into the BIOS doesn't see any of the SATA drives or the USB stick. So no way of getting it to load the file.
The @BIOS utility which luckily I still had on the original DVD seemed to be working, it found the correct version but when it appeared to be starting to flash, Windows told me it had stopped working and did I want to close it? Restarting the machine I find I'm still on F1.
I don't think it's going to turn out to be the BIOS but it's worth ruling it out, but even that's being a p.i.t.a.
The Q-Flash utility that is built into the BIOS doesn't see any of the SATA drives or the USB stick. So no way of getting it to load the file.
The @BIOS utility which luckily I still had on the original DVD seemed to be working, it found the correct version but when it appeared to be starting to flash, Windows told me it had stopped working and did I want to close it? Restarting the machine I find I'm still on F1.
I don't think it's going to turn out to be the BIOS but it's worth ruling it out, but even that's being a p.i.t.a.