Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus P5SD1-FM2 User Manual

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The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic Input/Output
System (BIOS) setup.
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Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.
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Managing and updating your BIOS

ASUS EZ Flash (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk during POST.)
ASUS AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy disk.)
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.

Creating a bootable floppy disk

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 Start from the Windows
C o m p u t e r .
c. Select the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon.
d. Click File from the menu, then select Format. A Format 3 1/2
Floppy Disk window appears.
e. Select Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the format
options field, then click Start.
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desktop, then select My
Chapter 2: BIOS setup