Asus A8N-SLI SE manual Recovering the BIOS from a floppy disk

Recovering the BIOS from a floppy disk

To recover the BIOS from the support CD:

1.Remove any CD from the optical drive, then turn on the system.

2.Insert the floppy disk with the original or updated BIOS file to the floppy disk drive.

3.The utility displays the following message and automatically checks the floppy disk for the original or updated BIOS file.

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting IDE ATAPI device...

When no CD is found, the utility automatically checks the optical drive for the original or updated BIOS file. The utility then updates the corrupted BIOS file.

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting IDE ATAPI device...

Found CDROM, try to Boot from it... Fail

Detecting floppy drive A media...

DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing so can cause system boot failure!

4.Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.

The recovered BIOS may not be the latest BIOS version for this motherboard. Visit the ASUS website (www.asus.com) to download the latest BIOS file.

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