Recovery Flow - QUANTA W Mainboard Series S210-MBT2W Technical Manual

BIOS

[2.2.162] Recovery Flow

[2.2.163] The BIOS has an embedded recovery technique in
the 'boot block'. In the event that the BIOS becomes corrupt,
the boot block can be used to restore the BIOS to a working
state. The routine is called when the 'system block' of the BIOS
is empty or corrupt. The restore routine when called will access
the USB drive looking for a file named S4E_REC.ROM. This is
the reason the USB drive light comes on and the drive appears
to be in use. If the file (S4E_REC.ROM) is found it is loaded into
the 'system block' of the BIOS to replace the corrupted informa-
tion To restore your BIOS copy the most recent version of your
mainboards BIOS file to a USB key and rename it
S4E_REC.ROM
[2.2.164] The recovery mode procedure is as follows:
2.2.165.1.Rename the good known BIOS as
S4E_REC.ROM.
2.2.166.2.Plug in a removable USB disk.
2.2.167.3.Save the S4E_REC.ROM. file into the removable
USB disk.
2.2.168.4.Short the BIOS recovery jumper. See Mainboard
Jumpers.
2.2.169.5.Power on the server.
[2.2.170] The system will automatically enter BIOS Setup menu
and display a Recovery page as follows:
Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2010 American Megatrends, Inc.
Main Advanced Chipset Server Mgmt
WARNING! BIOS Recovery mode has been detected
Proceed with flash update
Version 2.10.1208 - Copyright (C) 2010 American Megatrends, Inc.
[2.2.171] BIOS Recovery Menu
[2.2.172] The recovery process begins.
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ECOVERY
Boot Security Save & Exit Recovery
Set this option to
reset NVRAM to
default values
: Select Screen
: Select Item
Enter: Select
+/-: Change Opt.
F1: Genenal Help
F8: Previous Values
F9: Optimized Defaults
F10: Save & Exit
ESC: Exit
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ODE