Hi Fzeven! The first flash wasn't very successful. The flash failed and I ended up with a bricked BIOS... Luckily it's an Award BIOS, which looks for a floppy drive when the BIOS checksum fails. The only problem was that I didn't have one... So I borrowed a floppy drive and connected it to the controller. I had to make a boot disk which allowed me to do the flash without any manual intervention, because I have a USB connected keyboard. That doesn't work with a bricked BIOS. The first attempt didn't do anything (hang) but the second one flashed the BIOS successfully with the flash code you provided. I had my motherboard back, hurray!!!! I installed Vista Ultimate, started the Windows Vista Activation tool, selected ASUS (the tool also allows you to insert the Asus logo in your control panel, nice!) and activated Vista. After a reboot I issued the slmgr.exe -xpr command, which showed "This machine is permanently activated". YES!!!! Thank you VERY much for your help!!!!!!!