2-6 Chapter 2: BIOS setup

Recovering the BIOS from the support DVD

To recover the BIOS from the support DVD:
1. Remove any oppy disk from the oppy 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 oppy disk for
the original or updated BIOS le.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
Floppy not found!
Checking for CD-ROM...
CD-ROM found!
Reading le “P5QEMDO.ROM”. Completed.
Start ashing...
When no oppy disk is found, the utility automatically checks the optical drive for the
original or updated BIOS le. The utility then updates the corrupted BIOS le.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
4. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.
• Only the USB ash disk with FAT 32/16 format and single partition can
support ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3. The device size should be smaller than
8GB.
• DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing so
can cause system boot failure!

Recovering the BIOS from the USB ash disk

To recover the BIOS from the USB ash disk:
1. Insert the USB ash disk that contains BIOS le to the USB port.
2. Turn on the system.
3. The utility will automatically checks the devices for the BIOS le when found, the utility
reads the BIOS le and starts ashing the corrupted BIOS le.
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 le.
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