Asus P5QL - Manual (Page 67)

ASUS P5QL 3-9
Recovering the BIOS from the Support DVD
To recover the BIOS from the Support DVD:
1. Turn on the system.
2. Insert the motherboard Support DVD into the optical drive.
The utility displays the following message and automatically checks the DVD
for the BIOS file.
3. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.
• Only the USB flash disk with FAT 32/16 format and single partition supports
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3. The device size should be smaller than 8GB.
• DO NOT shut down or reset the system while updating the BIOS! Doing so
can cause system boot failure!
Recovering the BIOS from a USB flash disk
To recover the BIOS from a USB flash disk:
1. Insert a USB flash disk that contains BIOS file into a USB port.
2. Turn on the system.
The utility automatically checks the devices for the original or updated BIOS
file. When the BIOS file is found, the utility reads the BIOS file and starts
updaing the corrupted BIOS file.
3. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
Floppy not found!
Checking for DVD-ROM...
DVD-ROM found!
Reading file “P5QL.ROM”. Completed.
Start flashing...
When no floppy disk is found, the utility automatically checks the optical drive
for the original or updated BIOS file. The utility then updates the corrupted
BIOS file.
The recovered BIOS may not be the latest BIOS version for this motherboard.
Visit the ASUS website at www.asus.com to download the latest BIOS file.