Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus M2V-MX SE User 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 (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk, USB Flash, or the
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motherboard support CD during POST.)
ASUS AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy
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disk.)
ASUS.CrashFree.BIOS.2 (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy, or the
3.
motherboard support CD 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.
AMI.BIOS.beep.codes
Test Item
VGA found beep
System boot
No memory found
No keyboard error
No VGA found
Hardware monitoring error
2.1.1

Creating a bootable floppy disk

1. Do either one 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.
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XP environment
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environment.)
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BIOS Beeps
One short beep
One short beep (Quick Boot set to Disabled)
One long beep, two short beeps,
pause a period of time, and loop
One short beep
One long beep with three short beeps
One long beep with four short beeps
desktop, then select My Computer.
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Chapter 2: BIOS Setup