ASUS RoG Maximus III Extreme LGA 1156 Motherboard Preview

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     March 3, 2010

BIOS Flashback & Easy Update



At one corner of the board is a CMOS rested button and two BIOS chips that give this board a feature roughly akin to Gigabyte’s Dual BIOS called BIOS Flashback.


Through the RoG Connect interface on a secondary PC, you are now able to recover from misflashed or corrupt BIOS by simply telling the system to recover the backup BIOS from the second BIOS chip. With this, you no longer have to worry about bricking your system when flashing the BIOS.


To further aid you when it comes to those sometimes-tricky BIOS updates, ASUS has implemented a system by which the update can happen with a minimum of user involvement. All that one has to do is place the BIOS file on a flash drive, press the corresponding Update button on the motherboard’s backplate and the system will automatically flash the BIOS. Brilliant.
 
 
 

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