Owner's manual

ASUS P5QL 3-9
Recovering the BIOS from the Support DVD
To recover the BIOS from the Support DVD:
1. Turn on the system.
2. Insert the motherboard Support DVD into the optical drive.
The utility displays the following message and automatically checks the DVD
for the BIOS le.
3. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating 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!
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 into a USB port.
2. Turn on the system.
The utility automatically checks the devices for the original or updated BIOS
le. When the BIOS le is found, the utility reads the BIOS le and starts
updaing the corrupted BIOS le.
3. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
Floppy not found!
Checking for DVD-ROM...
DVD-ROM found!
Reading le “P5QL.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.
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.