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2-6 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 le when it fails or gets corrupted during the updating process. You can
update a corrupted BIOS le using the motherboard support CD, or the oppy disk
that contains the updated BIOS le.
• Prepare the motherboard support CD, or the oppy disk containing the
updated motherboard BIOS before using this utility.
• Make sure that you rename the original or updated BIOS le in the oppy
disk to P5GCMX.ROM.
Recovering the BIOS from a oppy disk
To recover the BIOS from a oppy disk:
1. Turn on the system.
2. Insert the oppy disk with the original or updated BIOS le to the oppy disk
drive.
3. The utility displays the following message and automatically checks the
oppy disk for the original or updated BIOS le.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
4. Restart the system after the utility completes the updating process.
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for oppy...
Floppy found!
Reading le “P5GCMX.ROM”. Completed.
Start ashing...
When found, the utility reads the BIOS le and starts ashing the corrupted
BIOS le.
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 nished, and the display will return after the system restarts.