Asus H170-PLUS D3 - CrashFree BIOS 3 Recovery; BIOS Updater for DOS

3. Rebootthesystemwhentheupdateprocessisdone.
 ASUSEZFlash3supportsUSBdevices,suchasaUSBashdisk,withFAT32/16
formatandsinglepartitiononly.
 DONOTshutdownorresetthesystemwhileupdatingtheBIOStopreventsystem
bootfailure!
2.1.3 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility
TheASUSCrashFreeBIOS3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restoreacorruptedBIOS
leusingthemotherboardsupportDVDoraUSBashdrivethatcontainstheupdatedBIOS
le.
 Beforeusingthisutility,renametheBIOSleintheremovabledeviceinto
H17P3.CAP.
 TheBIOSleinthesupportDVDmaynotbethelatestversion.Downloadthelatest
BIOSlefromtheASUSwebsiteatwww.asus.com.
Recovering the BIOS
To recover the BIOS:
1. Turnonthesystem.
2. InsertthesupportDVDtotheopticaldriveortheUSBashdrivethatcontainsthe
BIOSletotheUSBport.
3. TheutilityautomaticallychecksthedevicesfortheBIOSle.Whenfound,theutility
readstheBIOSleandentersASUSEZFlash3utilityautomatically.
4. ThesystemrequiresyoutoenterBIOSSetuptorecoverBIOSsettings.Toensure
systemcompatibilityandstability,werecommendthatyoupress<F5>toloaddefault
BIOSvalues.
DONOTshutdownorresetthesystemwhileupdatingtheBIOS!Doingsocancause
systembootfailure!
2.1.4 ASUS BIOS Updater
ASUSBIOSUpdaterallowsyoutoupdatetheBIOSinDOSenvironment.
Thescreencapturesusedinthissectionareforreferenceonlyandmaynotbeexactlythe
sameasactuallyshownonyourcomputerscreen.
Before updating BIOS
 PreparethemotherboardsupportDVDandaUSBashdrive.
ASUS H170-PLUS D3 2-3