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Recovering the bios from a floppy disk – Asus A8V User Manual

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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup

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

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

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting IDE ATAPI device...

Found CDROM, try to Boot from it... Pass

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

Recovering the BIOS from a floppy disk

To recover the BIOS from the support CD:

1. Remove any CD from the optical drive, then 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.

When no CD is found, the utility automatically checks the optical drive for
the original or updated BIOS file. The utility then updates the corrupted
BIOS file.

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting IDE ATAPI device...

Found CDROM, try to Boot from it... Fail

Detecting floppy drive A media...

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting IDE ATAPI device...