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4 asus crashfree bios 2 utility, Recovering the bios from a floppy disk – Asus Motherboard P5GC-MX User Manual

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Chapter 2: BIOS setup

2.1.4 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.

• 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 P5GCMX.ROM.

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.

3. The utility displays the following message and automatically checks

the floppy disk for the original or updated BIOS file.

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 “P5GCMX.ROM”. Completed.
Start flashing...

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

corrupted BIOS file.

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

so can cause system boot failure!

If your display monitor is connected to the onboard VGA connector, the

display monitor will turn-off and the system will beep once while the

CrashFree BIOS 2 starts updating your system. The system will beep

once again while the process is finished, and the display will return after

the system restarts.