Recovery Flow - QUANTA STRATOS S200 Series S200-X12TS Technical Manual

BIOS

Recovery Flow

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 S2TS_REC.ROM. This is the rea-
son the USB drive light comes on and the drive appears to be in
use. If the file (S2TS_REC.ROM) is found it is loaded into the
'system block' of the BIOS to replace the corrupted information
To restore your BIOS copy the most recent version of your
mainboards BIOS file to a USB key and rename it
S2TS_REC.ROM.
The recovery mode procedure is as follows:
1. Rename the good known BIOS as S2TS_REC.ROM.
2. Plug in a removable USB disk.
3. Save the S2TS_REC.ROM. file into the removable USB
disk.
4. Short the BIOS recovery jumper. See Mainboard Jumpers
.
5. Power on the server.
The system will automatically enter BIOS Setup menu and dis-
play a Recovery page as follows:
Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2011 American Megatrends, Inc.
Main Advanced Chipset Server Mgmt
WARNING ! BIOS Recovery mode has been detected
Proceed with flash update
Version 2.14.1219 - Copyright (C) 2011 American Megatrends, Inc.
BIOS Recovery Menu
The recovery process begins.
6. Set the BIOS recovery jumper back to default position
and wait until the recovery process is completed. See
Mainboard Jumpers and BIOS Recovery Completed .
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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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