Need solution for a LOCKED BIOS :(

Hi,

I have a Gateway AMD X2 6000+ with an EliteGroup MCP61PM Motherboard. Unfortunately the BIOS (Pheonix Tech) is locked.

Is there a way I can reflash this puppy with a BIOS which isn't locked? If so, where can I get it?

Rip out the BIOS chip and stick in a different one with the BIOS of the correct board on it, might work.

I hear the word "BACKUP!" screaming at you.

Don't worry, I'll call her.

I would remove the battery overnight and cross your fingers. Also unplug power and reset CMOS Jumper. This has worked before.

Good Luck

Well, I can get an identical MB from Asus for about $80 that can be modded, so if I do anything I should do that.

Right now I use the same computer for business as gaming, which probably is a bad idea. I haven't built a "gaming only" rig yet because I am waiting on the new Dual GPU cards to come out in Q1 and the new multi-card MB's that look so promising.

I also want to see what is the biggest bang for my buc and whoch turns in the best performance - 4 ATI Cards or 3 NVidia cards.

Crysis is cool now and I can play it on all High settings and get 30 - 40 FPS on a 1280 x 1024, but I want to ge able to crank everything and get awesome FPS and zero BSOD.

sry for the delay, the awdflash will go on the floppy wiff a boot disk I know I done it plenty of times in xp.
Put your floppy in A choose format and click copy system files you now have a floppy boot disk. copy awdflash on that disk and boot up from A.
type in awdflash or what the .EXE is and choose the option to copy your bios to a file.
Now delete the awdflash and copy modbin6 to the floppy with your bios, boot up again and type modbin6 [name of bios] and you can now start to edit your bios when you are satified with your work save it
you can now delete Modbin6 copy awdflash back to the disk, boot up using the floppy and choose the command to flash the bios you made, it is quite easy.