User Manual

5-2 Chapter 5: BIOS setup
5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic Input/
Output System (BIOS) setup:
1.
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 (To recover the BIOS using a bootable USB ash
disk drive when the BIOS le fails or gets corrupted.)
2.
ASUS EZ Flash 2 (Updates the BIOS using a USB ash disk.)
3.
BUPDATER utility (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable USB
ash disk drive.)
Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.
Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS le to a bootable USB ash
disk drive in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original
motherboard BIOS using the BUPDATER utility.
5.1.1 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility
The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 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 a USB ash drive that contains the updated BIOS le.
Prepare a USB ash drive containing the updated motherboard BIOS before
using this utility.
RecoveringtheBIOSfromaUSBashdrive
To recover the BIOS from a USB ash drive:
1. Insert the USB ash drive with the original or updated BIOS le to one USB port
on the system.
2. The utility will automatically recover the BIOS. It resets the system when the
BIOS recovery nished.
DO NOT shut down or reset the system while recovering the BIOS! Doing so would
cause system boot failure!
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.