Recovering the bios from the support cd – Asus P4-P5N9300 User Manual

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ASUS P2-P5N9300/P4-P5N9300

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Recovering the BIOS from the Support CD

To recover the BIOS from the Support CD:

1. Remove any floppy disk from the floppy disk drive, then turn on the system.
2. Place the Support CD into the optical drive.

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...
Floppy not found!
Checking for CD-ROM...
CD-ROM found!
Reading file “P5N78L.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.

Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...

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

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.

When the original or updated BIOS file is found, the utility reads it and starts

updating the corrupted BIOS file.

Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
Floppy found!
Reading file “P5N78L.ROM”. Completed.
Start flashing...

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

cause system boot failure!

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

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