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 DVD-ROM...

DVD-ROM found!

Reading file “P5N73-AM.bin”. 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 (www.asus.com) to download the latest BIOS file.

ASUS P5N73-AM

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