Recovering The Bios With Crashfree Bios 2 - Asus Multimedia System S-presso User Manual

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Recovering the BIOS with CrashFree BIOS 2

Recovering the BIOS with CrashFree BIOS 2
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The CrashFree BIOS 2 auto recovery tool allows you to restore BIOS from
the motherboard support CD, or from a floppy disk that contains the BIOS
file, in case the current BIOS on the motherboard fails or gets corrupted.
• Prepare the s u p p o r t C D
f l o p p y d i s k t h a t c o n t a i n s t h e m o t h e r b o a r d B I O S f l o p p y d i s k t h a t c o n t a i n s t h e m o t h e r b o a r d B I O S
f l o p p y d i s k t h a t c o n t a i n s t h e m o t h e r b o a r d B I O S f l o p p y d i s k t h a t c o n t a i n s t h e m o t h e r b o a r d B I O S f l o p p y d i s k t h a t c o n t a i n s t h e m o t h e r b o a r d B I O S
(P4P8T.ROM) before proceeding with the BIOS update process.
• If you have saved a copy of the original motherboard BIOS to a
bootable floppy disk, you may also use this disk to restore the BIOS.
See section "5.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk."
To recover the BIOS from a floppy disk:
1. Boot the system.
2. When a corrupted BIOS is detected, the following message appears.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
3. Insert a floppy disk that contains the original, or the latest, BIOS file
for this motherboard (P 4 P 8 T . R O M
downloaded from the ASUS website has a different filename (e.g.
P 4 P 8 T 1 1 . R O M), rename it to P 4 P 8 T P 4 P 8 T 1 1 . R O M P 4 P 8 T 1 1 . R O M
P 4 P 8 T 1 1 . R O M P 4 P 8 T 1 1 . R O M
process continues when the P 4 P 8 T . R O M
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
Floppy found!
Reading file "p4p8t.rom". Completed.
Start flashing...
DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing
so may cause system boot failure!
4. When the BIOS update process is complete, reboot the system.
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s u p p o r t C D that came with the motherboard or a s u p p o r t C D s u p p o r t C D s u p p o r t C D
P 4 P 8 T . R O M P 4 P 8 T . R O M
P 4 P 8 T . R O M). If the BIOS file that you P 4 P 8 T . R O M
P 4 P 8 T P 4 P 8 T. R O M P 4 P 8 T
P 4 P 8 T
P 4 P 8 T . R O M is found. P 4 P 8 T . R O M P 4 P 8 T . R O M
P 4 P 8 T . R O M
. R O M . R O M. The BIOS update . R O M
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