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4.9 Miscellaneous Features

4.9.1BIOS ROM

It depends on the platform design architecture (sharer ROM or Non-Sharer ROM,

Intel ME SKU and so on).

Non-Sharer ROM: SBIOS and EC BIOS have each SPI ROM chip separately, the

EEPROM is inside EC BIOS area, BIOS will copy a full set of EEPROM data to

SBIOS ROM at the first POST or EEPROM data is updated to speed up the

EEPROM access.

Sharer ROM: The EC BIOS, EEPROM and SBIOS are all inside one SPI ROM chip.

4.9.2 USB Support

This feature allows the use of a USB keyboard to access BIOS Setup and to be used

in DOS without additional drivers. USB floppy boot and Crisis Recovery from USB

floppy is also supported. The driver provides other USB devices support after loading

the operating system.

4.9.3 Flash utility – one BIOS ROM only

The flash utility can be used to program both system and keyboard BIOS at the same

time.

4.9.4 Crisis Recovery

This feature provides an opportunity for system that cannot boot up. With a crisis

floppy diskette, the system can perform crisis recovery by using internal PS2

keyboard.

To perform crisis recovery using keyboard, do the following:

Power off the system.

Plug-in the USB floppy drive with crisis floppy diskette inserted.

Hold down Fn + B keys.

Plug-in AC adapter and make sure it is powered.

Power on the system from off state (i.e. cold boot) while holding down key.