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Well, for starters, check that you haven't enabled bios protection. Most modern boards have a feature that prevents writting to the bios (locking) to prevent unauthorized access. Most boards I use ship with this disabled, but check.
If there is not setting in bios ( I recomend reading the MB manual and not just poking around the bios.) then Flash the bios using the on-board jumper, then switch the pin back and flash the bios on the next boot. That stands a good chance of killing any security program on board that may be protecting the bios.
Never flash a bios from inside windows. I have never seen any good come of it and neither award nor Ami will support you with a new bios chip if you flashed from within a graphical os. Flash from the *nix command line using the bios makers *nix utility or flash from Dos using the dos utility.
Most basically, check to make sure you have the correct model #. It not unusual to see revision numbered boards that use upgraded chipsets with the same product name.
A good example of this is the MSI KT3 series. There are actually 6 KT3's and 4 different bios's depending. But they are all KT3's.
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