Intel Brand Motherboard BIOS recovery?

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bad flash, i guess..
purchased a intel D845EBT2, but i think it might've been a bad flash, since it doesnt turn on.. PSU wont work, absolutely nothing, BUT the BIOS chip gets supra hot.

i read somewhere that Intel has a recovery setting, anyone know how to do that when the PC wont even turn on?
 
For AMI BIOS

1. Rename the desired AMI BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM and save it on a floppy disk. e.g. Rename A569MS23.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM
2. Insert this floppy disk in the floppy drive. Turn On the system and press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. It will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file and recover the BIOS from the A drive.
3. When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk and restart the computer.



For Award BIOS

1. Make a bootable floopy disk
2. Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to the said floppy disk
3. Create an autoexec.bat with "Award_Flash_Utility BiosFilename" in the content (e.g. awdfl823K w6378vms.130)
Sample on how to create an autoexec:
a. On Windows, open the notepad
b. On the notepad, write "awdfl823K w6378vms.130" (without the " ")
c. Save the file as autoexec.bat
4. Boot up system with the said floppy (it will take less than 2 minutes before screen comes out)
5. Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.



Taken from an Intel paper circa 1997:
BIOS Recovery

Note: Not all standard Intel products support the Flash BIOS recovery feature. If your motherboard (for example, the Advanced/AS) does not have the recovery feature, ensure that you do not power down your system during a BIOS upgrade. This could corrupt the BIOS code. If your BIOS is left in an unusable and unrecoverable state, it will be necessary to contact the place of purchase.

In the unlikely event that a FLASH upgrade is interrupted catastrophically, it is possible the BIOS may be left in an unusable state. Recovering from this condition requires the following steps (be sure a power supply and speaker have been attached to the board, and a floppy drive is connected as drive A):

1. Change Flash Recovery jumper to the recovery mode position (see note above; not all products have this feature)
2. Install the bootable upgrade diskette into drive A:
3. Reboot the system.
4. Because of the small amount of code available in the non-erasable boot block area, no video is available to direct the procedure. The procedure can be monitored by listening to the speaker and looking at the floppy drive LED. When the system beeps and the floppy drive LED is lit, the system is copying the recovery code into the FLASH device. As soon as the drive LED goes off, the recovery is complete.
5. Turn the system off
6. Change the Flash Recovery jumper back to the default position.
7. Leave the upgrade floppy in drive A: and turn the system on.
8. Continue with the original upgrade.
 
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