5-8 Jumper and Connector Locations
BIOS Recovery by Crisis Disk 0
BIOS Recovery Boot Block 0
BIOS Recovery Boot Block is a special block of BIOS. It is used to boot up the system with
minimum BIOS initialization. Users can enable this feature to restore the BIOS firmware if a
previous BIOS flashing process has failed.
BIOS Recovery Hotkey 0
To enable the BIOS Recovery process, use the function hotkey, Fn + Esc, during BIOS
POST. The AC adapter and battery are required to be installed during this process.
Steps for BIOS Recovery using USB HDD 0
Prior to performing the recovery, prepare a Crisis USB key. The Crisis USB key is
created by executing the Crisis Disk program on another system with Windows
®
7 OS.
The USB HDD LED will flash for approximately three to seven minutes followed by a
system restart.
To Create a Crisis USB key, perform the following:
1. Format USB HDD using the Quick Format option (Figure 5-5).
Figure 5-5. Format HDD