Recovering the BIOS from the Support DVD

To recover the BIOS from the Support DVD:

1.Remove any floppy disk from the floppy disk drive, then turn on the system.

2.Insert the Support DVD to the optical drive.

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

Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...

Checking for floppy...

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

Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...

Checking for floppy...

Floppy not found!

Checking for CD-ROM...

CD-ROM found!

Reading file “M3A78EM.ROM”. Completed.

Start flashing...

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 at www.asus.com to download the latest BIOS file.

Recovering the BIOS from the USB flash disk

To recover the BIOS from the USB flash disk:

1.Insert the USB flash disk that contains BIOS file to the USB port.

2.Turn on the system.

3.The utility will automatically checks the devices for the BIOS file When found, the utility reads the BIOS file and starts flashing the corrupted BIOS file.

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

ASUS M3A78-EM

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