Sorry to hear about your comp. Maybe some of this may help. I will have to assume you are using a windows computer as they are the only kind I deal with. When you are presented with the error message are there any beeps to accompany it? Have you tried to insert a boot disk in the A: drive to try and boot from that? If you can do that then the damage may not be as bad as feared. BIOS rom failiure may be caused by several things. I would advise you to check all your cables and pins on the connections to your drives and reseat them all. ALso pressaing trying to reseat the BIOS chip may help. Consult your motherboard manual on where to find this chip is you are uncertain. On a more drastic note it may be possible to actually replace the bios chip with another of the same type but this can be tricky and you would have to locate an exact BIOS chip to replace it with. Your local repair shop could do this for you if they have an appropriate replacement, but don't hold your breath. Also try and replace the CMOS battery on the Mboard just to cover all your options. Of course all this may seem like too much arsing about and I wouldn't blame you is you just ripped the damned thing out, grabbed the cheque book and got a new one! I will end by adding that BIOS rom troubles invariably end poorly, reducing you to tears, madness, bad breath, irritable manner(unless like that to begin with) and finally constipated due to too many hours wedged in front of blank screen. :)