Acer Aspire 5951G Acer Aspire 5951G Service Guide - Page 198

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 NOTE: NOTE: 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 5-8 Jumper and Connector Locations