ASUS S1016P Guía Del Usuario

Chapter 5: BIOS setup

The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic Input/Output 

System (BIOS) setup:

1. 

To recover the BIOS using a bootable USB flash disk drive when the BIOS file fails or

gets corrupted.

2. 

Updates the BIOS using a USB flash disk.

3. 

Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable USB flash disk drive.

Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.

To recover the BIOS from a USB flash drive:

1.

Insert the USB flash drive with the original or updated BIOS file to one USB port on the

system.

2. 

The utility will automatically recover the BIOS. It resets the system when the BIOS recovery 

finished.

DO NOT shut down or reset the system while recovering the BIOS! Doing so would cause 

system boot failure!

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.

Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a bootable USB flash disk drive in case

you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original motherboard BIOS using the 

BUPDATER utility.

The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 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 a USB flash drive that contains the updated BIOS file.

Prepare a USB flash drive containing the updated motherboard BIOS before using this utility.