User Guide
Table Of Contents
- DSEB-D16 Series specifications summary
- Typography
- About this guide
- Safety information
- Notices
- Product introduction
- Hardware information
- Powering up
- BIOS setup
- RAID configuration
- 5.1 Setting up RAID
- 5.2 LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility
- 5.2.1 Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set
- 5.2.2 Creating a RAID 10 set
- 5.2.3 Adding or viewing a RAID configuration
- 5.2.4 Initializing the logical drives
- 5.2.5 Rebuilding failed drives
- 5.2.6 Checking the drives for data consistency
- 5.2.7 Deleting a RAID configuration
- 5.2.8 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set
- 5.2.9 Enabling the WriteCache
- 5.3 Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility
- 5.4 Global Array Manager
- 5.5 LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility (DSEB-D16/SAS model only)
- Driver installation
- Reference information

ASUS DSEB-D16 Series 4-5
4.1.3 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
update a corrupted BIOS le using a oppy disk or a USB ash drive that contains
the updated BIOS le.
Prepare a oppy disk or a USB ash drive containing the updated motherboard
BIOS before using this utility.
Recovering the BIOS from a oppy disk
To recover the BIOS from a oppy disk:
1. Turn the system.
2. Insert the oppy disk with the original or updated BIOS le to the oppy disk
drive.
3. The utility will automatically recover the BIOS. It resets the system when the
BIOS recovery nished.
Recovering the BIOS from a USB ash drive
To recover the BIOS from a USB ash drive:
1. Remove any oppy disk from the oppy disk drive and turn the system.
2. Insert the USB ash drive with the original or updated BIOS le to one USB
port on the system.
3. The utility will automatically recover the BIOS. It resets the system when the
BIOS recovery nished.
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 (www.asus.com) to download the latest BIOS le.










