5-6 Jumper and Connector Locations5. While resting the tool on the two contacts, plug one end of the AC adapter into the DC-injack and plug one end to an electrical outlet.6. Press the button to turn on the computer.7. After the BIOS POST, remove the tool from the hardware gap.8. Reinstall the battery pack and the lower case cover.9. Turn on the computer and pressF2 during bootup to access theSetup Utility. If nopassword prompt appears, the BIOS passwords have been cleared. If the promptappears, repeat steps 4-9 until the BIOS passwords have been cleared.10. PressF9 to load the system defaults.11. PressF10 to save the changes you made and close the Setup Utility.12. If a wireless module was removed, reinstall it.Performing a BIOS Recovery 0Boot Block 0An interruption during a BIOS flash procedure (e.g. a power outage) can corrupt the BIOScode, which will cause the system to go into an unbootable state. The BIOS boot block refersto a special BIOS program that can be used to boot up a system with minimum BIOSinitialization.You need to access and execute the boot block to reboot the computer andrecover the regular BIOS code.Creating the Crisis Disk 0NOTE:NOTE:The BIOS crisis recovery disk should be prepared in a computer running the WindowsXP, Vista, or 7 OS.1. Prepare a removable USB flash drive.Note that all data in the USB flash drive will be cleared during the creation of the crisisdisk.2. Set up a computer running the Windows XP, Vista, or 7 operating system and plug in theUSB flash drive into an available USB port.3. Open theNotepad program and create a new file.4. Type startup.nsh.For example, the USB key prompt isfs0. ThePFlash.efi andBIOS.cap files are in thefs0:root directory.
