Owner manual

5-6 Chapter 5: BIOS setup
5.1.4 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 the motherboard
support CD, the USB ash disk, or the oppy disk that contains the updated
BIOS le.
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...
4. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
Floppy found!
Reading le “P5RD2VM.ROM”. Completed.
Start ashing...
When found, the utility reads the BIOS le and starts ashing the
corrupted BIOS le.
DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing
so can cause system boot failure!
• Prepare the motherboard support CD, the USB ash disk, 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 or the USB ash disk to P5BVMA. ROM.
•
If your display monitor is connected to the onboard VGA
connector, the display monitor will turn-off and the system
will beep once while CrashFree BIOS 3 starts updating your
system. The system will beep once again while the process is
nished, and the display will return after the system restarts.