Bad Flash?

[illwillchill]

Im building my system for a friend, assembly went off with no problems. I usually dont mess with flashing a rom, but I went against my own words "If it ain't broke, don't mess with it." and went looking for an updated rom. I used a win 98 boot disk I use all the time for other systems. I changed floppys, the 2nd floppy containing 2 files AWDFLASH.exe (copied from the cd provided by the motherboard) and ak38s00h.exe, copied from shuttle.com's site. I backedup the old bios, and the flash went off with no problems. Upon reboot there is no post, no beeps, no video, nothing, just the silent whirl of fans and the cdrom :cry:

MOBO: Shuttle AK38N V1.1
PROC: Athlon 1800 tbred
RAM: Apacer 512 2700 DDR
VIDEO: Radeon 7000
HD: WD 40GB

Note:

All parts were purchased from Newegg. All new/OEM No refurbished parts. And this is not my system, if it was mine I would just suck it up.

Does the warrenty (if any) cover bad rom flash?

[powerme]

reset CMOS or clear CMOS jumper

or take out the battery and wait for 3 seconds and put it back

and try again to see if it helps

[illwillchill]

No dice, I removed the cmos battery over night. This morning I got a reply from shuttle tech service. (quick reply might I add, I sent an email Sunday Night). The typical "clear the cmos jumper" suggestion. Except for the fact the tech guy suggested I start it up pressing the INS key. I tried it, again no dice. Gonna have to replace the BIO's from Shuttle, $15 including shipping, not too bad. My friend's not gonna be too happy :(

Last time I'm gonna build a system for a friend.......for free.