Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus M2N68 Manual

2.1

Managing and updating your BIOS

The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic
Input/Output System (BIOS) setup.
ASUS EZ Flash 2: Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a floppy disk or
1.
the motherboard support DVD.
ASUS AFUDOS: Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy
2.
disk.
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3: Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk, or
3.
the motherboard support DVD when the BIOS file fails or gets corrupted.
ASUS Update: Updates the BIOS in Windows
4.
Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.
Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a bootable floppy disk or
a USB flash disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the
original motherboard BIOS using the ASUS Update or AFUDOS utilities.
2.1.1

Creating a bootable floppy disk

1. Do any of the following to create a bootable floppy disk:
DOS environment
a. Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press <Enter>.
Windows
a. Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
b. Click Start from the Windows
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.
Windows
a. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk
drive.
b. Click
c. Right-click Floppy Disk Drive then click Format to display the
Format 3 1/2 Floppy dialog box.
d. Select the Create an MS-DOS startup disk check box.
e. Click Start.
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XP environment
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Vista environment
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from the Windows
environment.
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desktop, then select My Computer.
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desktop, then select Computer.
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Chapter 2: BIOS setup