You said it had been crashing (we don't know exactly how or why). It may now be 'crashing' at startup, that's what the lights suggest. Reseat memory, try operating it with only one stick at a time, in socket 1.
BIOS updates don't generally solve problems that just started happening suddenly after working right for a couple years, unless new hardware was added that the old BIOS didn't recognize.
There have been many people in the same boat as you. I suspect the BIOS versions may have some incompatibility in the way they store data in the CMOS or possibly it gets corrupted during the update. Either way it would be useful for the update utility to check to see if a reset is needed to prevent the grief that people feel when their machine is completely dead!
PETER345
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January 3rd, 2008 13:00
One good thing to try after a failed BIOS update is to reset the CMOS settings. See here.
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January 3rd, 2008 16:00
PETER345
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January 3rd, 2008 20:00
Glad you got it working.
Peter
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