Thanks Orac,
I had hoped that I could download another BIOS and get the motherboard to read it on boot up from the floppy, but if it takes specialist equipment to load a new BIOS then I'm done for!
If anyone has any tricks in hand I would be gratefull.
I guess on the same quest can anyone suggest a good motherboard that would support the following:
AMD Athlon 1.6+
768mb Ram
80gb Hard drive.
CD-RW
DVD
Creatix 56K modem
Nvidea Gforce 3 ti200...........
..................and not go chest up at the slightest excuse!
Thanks again for all the support that comes from these pages.