PC crashed when attempting BIOS upgrade

"The system will not boot. It also does not let me get into the bios. I cleared the bios by taking the battery out and disconnecting the optical drive. It just tells me to run setup and then goes to a flashing cursor.
Could this be a bad bios battery or power problem or motherboard problem?

Thanks,
Marc" http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_bios&message.id=45218 You are certainly not alone with this. If there was a bad flash you would simply redownload a good copy of the bios to perform a reflash if and when you could get far enough to boot from a floppy or use an onboard utilty after saving the update to the hd. If the chipset did fail then the chipset would need replacement if it was removable. You would first have to look over the docs on the board. But you will probably still end up contacting Dell's hardware support. http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/chat?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
 
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No matter what I try, I am still getting the same results. I've looked at the mobo untill I'm crosseyed, searching for a removable chip besides the CPU and I can't find one. This Dell is almost 6 years old... maybe it's time for an upgrade. I'm certainly not going to give one more cent to Dell to fix a mobo that isn't compatible with anything more than 512MB of RAM, uses and AGP slot, and doesn't have USB 2.0.
 
After 4-5 years of good use and seeing too much aggravation on one board it comes to a point where you have to say: "Recycle Bin Please!". You can put even a budget case together at this point that will leave that one out in the cold. The service cost would probably come to 1/2 of a new board anyway.
 
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