Thanks for your reply. I tried doing as you said, I used the HP Utility to make a bootable Windows98SE boot disk out of an old 32MB SD Card, and it booted fine but Aflash2 though told me that /All was an invalid switch. I'm using AFLASH2 that is on the ASUS website as a download attached to my laptop's BIOS downloads, it says it was modified 13/11/07. I did the flash without that switch and when I booted up again it stills says DELL_QA09 rather than ASUS SLIC. Is it safe to use another version or aflash2 or is there something else to try or...? Thanks a lot, Peter