Can't get A7V133 to boot from USB floppy or CDROM

Hi,

I inherited an older A7V133 motherboard along with some RAM, and figured
I'd try to put together a spare PC. I have an Athlon XP 1900+
installed.

The machine powers on, and I can get into the BIOS, and since the BIOS
version is 1004, I wanted to update the BIOS to 1010.

I have a USB floppy with the BIOS update, and when I set the BIOS to
boot from USB floppy, it looks like it's not trying to boot from the USB
floppy.

So, I burned a bootable floppy image onto CD, and tried to configure
BIOS to boot from CDROM, but the same thing happens. I know that this
CD is bootable, because I can boot from it on a different machine.

What happens when I power up is I see the BIOS display, it recognizes
the USB floppy drive and it sees the CDROM drive. The last thing it
displays is the list of PCI devices, then it just sits there forever.

I've tried different cables, both 40-wire and 80-wire, and I've tried
setting the CDROM drive to Master, and also tried setting the drive to
cable select. I've also tried two different CDROM drives, but no matter
what I've tried, the boot just hangs at the PCI device list.

Can anyone tell me what, if anything, I might try to get this machine to
boot off of either the USB floppy or my bootable CDROM??

Thanks,
Jim
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