Hi Kenny, sorry to hear you're having problems. That bootblock write error doesn't sound good. You may have to remove the BIOS flash chip and reprogram it in another computer. Have you tried removing the CMOS battery and letting the computer sit for say 20 minutes? Also, did your Thor motherboard …

It's a little disappointing, but it's to be expected. Common gamers don't care about things like source, preservation, EULAs, DRM, etc. They are more focused on driving their cars than tinkering with/ maintaining them.

$20 dollars is a great price for that system. Having to drive 3 hours to pick it up, not so much. I would consider it if a really nice CRT monitor and other goodies were included. I love the lines on that DTK case but it looks quite yellowed. That's not a deal breaker for me but you might want …

I'm not sure. Flashing the BIOS from a boot CD on such an old PC strikes me as playing with fire. For firmware upgrades, I feel most secure with as simple a configuration as possible. I'd personally stick to running the utility from a floppy disk or hard disk running DOS or maybe Win9x with no …

yamisamurai wrote: Can anyone please tell me the name and the brand of this PC? Just saw one on ebay. Seller is calling it an "IMS Custom Gaming Computer". Looks like a mid '90s whitebox to me.

Floppies aren't required but you'll want to run uniflash from a bare dos without himem.sys, emm386, or other stuff loaded. A floppy boot disk with just uniflash and the BIOS image can be a convenient way to do the job without touching your config files. You can make a boot floppy from dos pretty …

That looks perfect 640k!enough. Thank you. Now off to dump that BIOS! Edit: I uploaded a copy of the v1.00.03CN0T BIOS to my dropbox account. The link is below, filename is "BACKUP.BIN". It was dumped with uniflash v1.40 as suggested. https://www.dropbox.com/s/95veacsra1enh9q/BACKUP.BIN?dl=0

Checking in. Sorry about the delay. I just got my Gateway Intel Thor box setup and it does in fact have the 1.00.03.CN0T BIOS release. I'll now look into to dumping the BIOS and reflashing. Speaking of which, does anyone have any recommendations for generic utilities to flash the BIOS on a 430fx …

While I don't have the update file I do think I have a Gateway Thor with the 1.00.03.CN0T BIOS version. If you're interested I be happy to look into dumping it and sending you a copy. On a related note, I have question. Does your Gateway Thor take a long time to POST? Mine takes at least 30 seconds …

The computer on the bottom left looks like an HP 9825S. http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=171