User Guide

ASUS K8V-VM Motherboard 2-5
2.1.4 ASUS CrashFree BIOS2 utility
The ASUS CrashFree BIOS2 is an auto recovery tool that allows you to restore
the BIOS le when it fails or gets corrupted during the updating process. You can
update a corrupted BIOS le using the motherboard support CD or the oppy disk
that contains the updated 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.
DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing so can
cause system boot failure!
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checkingforoppy...
• Prepare the motherboard support CD or the oppy disk containing the
updated motherboard BIOS before using this utility.
• Make sure that you rename the original or updated BIOS le in the oppy
disk to K8VVM.ROM.
Recovering the BIOS from a floppy disk
To recover the BIOS from a oppy disk:
1. Turn on the system.
2. Insert the oppy disk with the original or updated BIOS le to the
oppy disk 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 found!
Readingle“ K8VVM.ROM”.Completed.
Startashing...