3 asus crashfree bios 2 utility, Asus crashfree bios 2 utility -4, Recovering the bios from a floppy disk – Asus KFSN4-DRE/SAS User Manual

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Chapter 4: BIOS setup

4.1.3

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 utility

The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 is an auto recovery tool that allows you to restore

the BIOS file when it fails or gets corrupted during the updating process. You can

update a corrupted BIOS file using the motherboard support CD or the floppy disk

that contains the updated BIOS file.

Recovering the BIOS from a floppy disk

To recover the BIOS from a floppy disk:
1. Turn on the system.
2. Insert the floppy disk with the original or updated BIOS file to the floppy disk

drive.

Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...

4. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.

Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
Floppy found!
Reading file “KFSN4DRE.ROM”. Completed.
Start flashing...

DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing so can

cause system boot failure!

• Prepare the motherboard support CD or the floppy disk containing the

updated motherboard BIOS before using this utility.

• Make sure that you rename the original or updated BIOS file in the floppy

disk to KFSN4DRE.ROM.

When found, the utility reads the BIOS file and starts flashing the corrupted

BIOS file.

3. The utility displays the following message and automatically checks the

floppy disk for the original or updated BIOS file.

Download the original or the latest BIOS file for this motherboard from ASUS

website (support.asus.com/download).

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