Hi all,

I,ve been hearing about hot swaping to flash a BIOS. I am going to try this. I have a ASUS A7V333 that went defunct. I read Ruslan's article (wish he's here). ASUS tech support keep telling me to try the things that I've already done and have no result. I understand that this BIOS is a 2MB flash ROM. Do I have to do the swaping with another board that has a 2MB BIOS? I have an old ASUS TX97-XV mobo but this is an old Pentium board with Intel chipsets and a 1 MB BIOS ROM. Will this board work? Also, I heard that you need an ISA video card, which I don't have. The TX97 has built-in video, will that work? I have an old PCI video card that I want to use in lieu of an ISA video card, will that work also. My last resort will be to ask a friend to use his ASUS board for the flash. I understand that pulling the BIOS out after booting to DOS shouldn't damage the BIOS. Is there anything else I should be aware of?

Thanks for the assistance.