Bios oh no!

Soo...I'm an idiot...I'll just admit that right off the bat. I didn't research enough before I acted because the website made it seem pretty simple. I should have looked at my user manual first to see the original way of flashing my bios.

All that said, originally I had 1GB of RAM in my computer because my friend spec'ed my heatsink wrong when building my computer and it covered over the 3 other ram slots. I deal with it for 2 years until like a month ago when i finally got out of my lazy slump and got a new heatsink. I installed it fine and free'd up my ram slots. So now I added 3 additional GB of ram for a grand total of 4. Loaded the computer up, updated my drivers, and it seemed to be fine. Throughout the month I noticed my computer was anything but faster. Either it ran the same speed or for certain little things it would take longer. On top of that when I played games like Warcraft III and Counter Strike: Source my computer would randomly freeze or reboot. This would happen in WC3 every other match or if i was lucky i'd be able to play like 3 or 4 games before this would happen. Worrying that when I go to use this computer for recording music that it would lock up and cause problems....Solution: I decided to flash my bios to make sure they were up to date and would probably solve my problem.

My motherboard is the LAN PARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert.

Soo I went here: http://www.dfi.com/portal/CM/cmprod...ormal&mode=view&downloadFlag=false&itemId=479

That's the page for my motherboard. I clicked on BIOS and saw the message about Winflash Ver 1.92 and hows it's an easier way to update BIOS. And they even have screenshots on a step by step how to do it. I followed the steps and for the file i downloaded the NF4ED406.EXE file not really understanding what i was doing. If you look at the second screenshot of the winflash walkthrough, my screen had everything checked as it's shown there except for i believe it was HOLE Area. HOLE Area was gray and unable to be checked. I thought nothing of it. So i updated bios using that .exe file and it finished and said BIOs updated successfully Do you want to reboot. Of course I hit yes. Upon reboot the computer loads all the way up until "Loading PBR for descriptor 2...done" after that it just hangs. Nothing happens. I've found by researching this on the web that this happens all the time on Dells for whatever reason and there's never any mention of it happening because of flashing the BIOS. I am able to access the BIOS page so the only thing i've tried so far is burning a CD with the NF4ED406.ZIP already extracted (which contains the files that my user manual stated should be used) and changed the boot order to CD first in hopes to re-flash my BIOS properly. Upon booting the computer it never says "press any key to boot from cd" but i do see "Boot from CD:" for a short while so i clicked anything and it sounds like its trying to run the cd but nothing happens. If I don't click anything when "Boot from CD:" pops up then it continues like normal until it displays that PBR message where it gets hung up again.

What should I try? Is it actually the PBR or some kind of error or is it because of my stupidity when flashing the BIOS? I have alot of important files on my harddrive so anything that doesn't wipe my drive is appreciated. If all else fails should I just purchase a new BIOS chip from the manufacturer?

Any more information i need to supply let me know

EDIT: I run windows xp 32bit

 

Could try a clrcmos ... remove the power from your machine, pull out your CMOS battery and put a jumper onto the clrcmos prongs ... leave it there for a minute and then put the battery back in, leave the jumper there for another minute to be sure then remove the jumper plug in power again ... go into your setup and select Load Optimized BIOS defaults, restart and try to boot.

 

I tried that solution before you actually posted it and it didn't work...

However...we can label this problem solved.

I don't know what happened....I finally hauled my desktop through NY rush hour in the subways all the way from NJ. I got to the office (I'm IT so I was going to work on it with my boss.) and set up a mouse n all that jazz....I didn't have any monitors with DVI input so I got one of our spare video cards and took my video card out. I plugged it into the monitor...pressed power...BAM it boots up no problem. I take one of the monitors from someone who's out today that has DVI....swap video cards back to my video card....power it up...BAM still works. I check what version the BIOS are...it says it's the version that i flashed it to. Soooo...i guess i flashed it properly but something unrelated and weird happened to it after....all i know is that when i haul it back to NJ through more rush hour traffic....it better work when i get home.....if it doesn't i'm checking my videocard again....

to think i've been w/o my computer for so long...for no reason.....let's throw this up to MOE (Mysteries of Electronics)