Acer Aspire Z1100 Acer Aspire Z1100 Desktop Service Guide - Page 154

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 in another system with Windows® 7 OS. To Create a Crisis USB key, perform the following: 1. Format USB HDD using the Quick Format option (Figure 5-3). Figure 5-3. Format USB HDD 2. Insert USB HDD into USB port. 5-6 Jumper and Connector Locations