How do i flash the boot chip and where is it seated on the pm800-m2 motherboard?

Is it an ECS PM800-M2 motherboard?

Uses a VIA motherboard chipset, (VIA PM800 / Northbridge chip, and VIA VT8237 / Southbridge chip)

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?DetailID=453&MenuID=24&LanID=0

If so suggest you download the Motherboard User Manual.
Click on the - Download - tab.
(Features / Specification / Download / Cerification / FAQ / etc)

Click on the blue - Manual
(Driver / BIOS / Manual)

Go to the Bottom file -
English manual for PM800-M2
Release Date: 2004/5/3

To the Right of - Download - click on the country name nearest yours.
(Yeah, I know. Europe is not a country, it's a continent)

A small window will come up -
Opening PM800-M2_10.zip

Make SURE there is a Green dot in the small circle, to the left of Save File.
IF not; click in the empty circle to the left of Save File.
No go below in the window, and click on OK.

A small download window will come up.
Allow the file to fully download, then DOUBLE-click right on the file name.
In the next small window go to the far left, and click on -
Extract all files.

At the bottom of the next 3 small windows, click on -
Next, Next, and Finish.

[DO NOT change anything in the second small window.
Windows knows where to put the file.
Just click on Next ]

In the last small window, there will be a red Adobe PDF icon, and the file name next to it.
DOUBLE-click right on the file name.

You are now looking at a PDF file version, of the Motherboard Manual.

The front of your computer is the Front Panel.
The area of contact pins on the motherboard, that the Main wires from the Front Panel go to, is the Front Panel header.

If you cannot figure out the Front Panel header pinout, post back in a Comment.

Regards,
joecoolvette

You need to make sure that your SATA drive has an Operating system on it. It can't boot if it only has a data drive.

Hello Gerard, my name is Arman (online alias: thedrain)

Attached in the below hyperlink is the manual that you are looking for...


ECS

necesito manual de pm800-m2

What is your OS? go to http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/ECSSearch.aspx?menuid=0&lanid=0&keyword=PM800-M2 and download your driver.

Hello,

Each memory slot can hold DDR PC2700 or DDR PC3200 with a maximum of 1GB per slot.

Here is the full info you need for your motherboard:

PM800-M2 Info

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i need driver sound motherboard PM*))-M2 rev:1.0a

Driver for video PM800-M2

reformat means that you have to install an fresh copy of your operating system to the hard drive. if you do have a cd of your windows installer like windows xp, just put it in your cd drive and restart your computer and boot from that cd. be sure to erase the partition that has your corrupt operating system installed ok to replace it with the new xp that your going to install...

that wasn't to hard was it?

So you have the PM800-M2 board?
Visit - http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Downloads/ProductsDetail_Download.aspx?detailid=453&DetailName=Bios&DetailDesc=&CategoryID=1&MenuID=6&LanID=9
You can fine the latest bios there. And it also explains how to use it. But you need to confirm this is the board that you have first!