ot: bios issue

[Alex Snow]

Hi all. I recently got ahold of an old amd k6/500 to use as a new linux box. I installed all the hard disks and stuff from my old box only to find the bios had a bug that wouldn't let it recognise disks over 32gb. I found the updated bios and put the new image, along with the awdflash.exe program for upgrading award bios's on a dos bootdisk and flashed the firmware. the process succeeded and I was told to press f1 to reboot. I did so and the machine wouldn't boot. I got the beep code that translates to no video card present so I tried another pci video card. still nothing. then I put in an old isa videocard and It kind of boots. It doesn't go through memory test or display the award bios splash screen like it used to. it just says scanning for floppy media and boots the floppy. if there's no floppy it says "insert system disk and press enter".
the board is a j-bond PCI500 socket7 board. does anyone know what I should do? I have a backup of the old firmware somewhere in case I have to revert to it.