Section 5-- Ghost Bios - Intel i945P User Manual

Introduction
Ghost BIOS helps you to recover from a corrupted BIOS situation, which normally would leave your
system unable to boot. Ghost BIOS lets you repair the BIOS yourself saving the hassle of returning the
mainboard for repair.
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1. Install the Thunder Flash utility found in the bundled CD.
2. Create a BIOS Recovery Disk (BRD) with this utility.
Making BIOS Recovery Disk:
1. Run the Thunder Flash utility.
2. Connect to the internet.
3. Insert a blank floppy disk into floppy drive and click "LOAD".
4. Keep this floppy in a safe place for future use.
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When the BIOS is corrupted or failed, restart the system and this screen will appear. You may chose to
recover the BIOS from BRD Floppy created earlier or from bundled driver CD.
1. Choose to recover from BIOS Recovery Disk floppy, insert the floppy disk created earlier and
click "1".
2. Choose to recover from mainboard system driver CD, insert driver CD into optical drive and
click "2".
Note that system driver CD consists only of Safe Mode BIOS. Proper BIOS must
be updated after it's recovered.
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