Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus Motherboard P5MT-M Product Manual

4.1

Managing and updating your BIOS

The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard
Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) setup.
1. A S U S A F U D O S A S U S A F U D O S (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable A S U S A F U D O S
A S U S A F U D O S A S U S A F U D O S
floppy disk.)
2. A S U S E Z F l a s h A S U S E Z F l a s h (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk during POST.) A S U S E Z F l a s h
A S U S E Z F l a s h A S U S E Z F l a s h
3. A S U S C r a s h F r e e B I O S 2 A S U S C r a s h F r e e B I O S 2 A S U S C r a s h F r e e B I O S 2 (Updates the BIOS using a bootable A S U S C r a s h F r e e B I O S 2 A S U S C r a s h F r e e B I O S 2
floppy disk or the motherboard support CD when the BIOS file fails or
gets corrupted.)
A S U S U p d a t e A S U S U p d a t e
4. A S U S U p d a t e (Updates the BIOS in Windows A S U S U p d a t e A S U S U p d a t e
Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.
Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a bootable floppy
disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original
motherboard BIOS using the ASUS Update or AFUDOS utilities.
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Creating a bootable floppy disk

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1. Do either one of the following to create a bootable floppy disk.
DOS environment
a. Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press <Enter>.
Windows ® XP environment
a. Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
b. Click S t a r t S t a r t S t a r t from the Windows S t a r t
S t a r t
C o m p u t e r C o m p u t e r
C o m p u t e r C o m p u t e r. C o m p u t e r
c. Select the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon.
F i l e F i l e
d. Click F i l e F i l e F i l e from the menu, then select F o r m a t
F l o p p y D i s k window appears. F l o p p y D i s k F l o p p y D i s k
F l o p p y D i s k F l o p p y D i s k
e. W i n d o w s W i n d o w s W i n d o w s W i n d o w s W i n d o w s
d i s k from the format options field, then click S t a r t d i s k d i s k
d i s k d i s k
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