User's Manual
ASUS P5Q SE2 2-7
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
Floppy not found!
Checking for DVD-ROM...
DVD-ROM found!
Reading le “P5QSE2.ROM”. Completed.
Start ashing...
3. Restart the system after the utility completes the update 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 le.
Recovering the BIOS from a USB ash disk
To recover the BIOS from a USB ash disk:
1. Insert a USB ash disk that contains BIOS le to a USB port.
2. Turn on the system.
The utility automatically checks the devices for the BIOS le. When the BIOS le is found, the
utility reads it and starts updating the corrupted BIOS le.
3. Restart the system after the utility completes the update process.
• Only the USB ash disk with FAT 32/16 format and single partition supports 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!
2.2 BIOS setup program
This motherboard supports a programmable Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) chip that you
can update using the provided utility described in section 2.1 Managing and updating your
BIOS.
Use the BIOS Setup program when you are installing a motherboard, reconguring your
system, or prompted to “Run Setup.” This section explains how to congure your system
using this utility.
Even if you are not prompted to use the Setup program, you can change the conguration of
your computer in the future. For example, you can enable the security password feature or
change the power management settings. This requires you to recongure your system using
the BIOS Setup program so that the computer can recognize these changes and record them
in the CMOS RAM of the SPI chip.
The SPI chip on the motherboard stores the Setup utility. When you start up the computer,
the system provides you with the opportunity to run this program. Press <Del> during the
Power-On Self-Test (POST) to enter the Setup utility; otherwise, POST continues with its test
routines.