i used a program called Bios to update my bios, since then when my pc boots there is no boot screen.. just a black blank screen, then an ''out of range'' WARNING shows.. EVENTUALLY the pc boots on into a fully working xp... problem is, i have 2 xp's on this and 2 hard drives.. first should i ever need to reload windows.. i don't anylonger have access to the ''press any key to boot from cd'' message because i have a blank screen when the bios boots.. secondly,  i don't get the choice to pick which xp i WANT to load..  gigabyte made the mb and said to ''try removing the cmos battery'' to reset the bios because the bios program  ..'' Bios" says it has been updated to the most recent version.  however they email message they sent also said i WOULD lose my OS if i did this... now if that is true and i lose XP then if trying what they say will leave me with nothing if it fails to work because if it fails i won't have the option to boot the xp to reinstall xp... but at the same time the email said doing this little trick would not affect anything on my hard drives??
so they have me lost

to the point

if it take the battery out for 2 mins. and that resets the cmos... will i possibly lose what fuctionallity i still have left?? or will it just fix or not fix the bios problem and i'll be fixed or still where i am now with at least xp running until it happens to get messed up and needs to be reinstalled..

any help would be greatly appreciated
Removing the battery for 5 minutes will reset the BIOS t default...
You will not lose your OS on either HDD.
You may have some bootup issues as you have now but you will not lose Windows.

How much did they charge you ? ?i was free email support from gigabyte because the manufactured the mb and THANK YOU! 85% of computers have an out-of-DATE BIOS.
Thank you for your Award BIOS Update Inquiry

BIOS Agent Scan Results:
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Computer name: CHASINGRAINBOWS
Your Ticket #: 30YLWHQ
BIOS Type: Award
BIOS Date: December 29th 2005
BIOS ID: 12/29/2005-nForce-6A61CG0OC-00
BIOS OEM: GA-K8NSC-939 F8 - F5
Chipset: Athlon 1100 rev 0
SuperIO: ITE 8712F rev 5 at port 002E
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard: nForce
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2.0
Maximum Memory: 16384MB
Installed Memory: 1536MB
Memory Config: Slot1:0 Slot2:512 Slot3:512 Slot4:512
Driver Agent Scan Results
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  Good Drivers (93%)
  Bad Drivers (7%)

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  CHASINGRAINBOWS (system summary) Good Bad Download   
   Disk Drives         
    WDC WD2500JB-00REA0       
   Display adapters         
    NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200       
    NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000       
   DVD/CD-ROM drives         
    SONY CD-RW CRX230EE       
   IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers         
    NVIDIA nForce3 250 Parallel ATA Controller       
    NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller       
   Keyboards         
    Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard       
   Mice and other pointing devices         
    PS/2 Compatible Mouse       
   Monitors         
    Plug and Play Monitor       
   Network adapters         
    Linksys LNE100TX(v5) Fast Ethernet Adapter       
    Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller       
   Other devices         
    Multimedia Video Controller       
   Ports         
    Communications Port (COM1)       
    Printer Port (LPT1)       
   Processors         
    AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+       
   Sound, video and game controllers         
    Realtek AC'97 Audio       
    Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Aux Driver       
   System Devices         
    NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management       
    NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge       
    AMD ACPI-Compliant System       
   Universal Serial Bus controllers         
    Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller       
    Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller       

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BIOS agent scan is a third party co. that just wants to sell you something you don't need.
I won't go as far to say they are schysters but certainly misleading.

Most BIOS are written once and never need updating so their claim that 85% of BIOS's are out of date should run up a red flag...

What issues were you having that led to a BIOS flash as a possible solution ? ?ha.. that's what hurts.. i was having no issues at all,  i simply noticed that the pc had the Bios program on it.. so i ran it, it said update needed so i updated it and all this started