Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus M4N72-E - Motherboard - ATX User Manual

Chapter 2
BIOS setup
2.1

Managing and updating your BIOS

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

To create a bootable floppy disk
1. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44MB floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
2. Follow the instructions based on your system environment.
DOS environment
a. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press <Enter>.
Windows XP environment
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a. From the Windows
b. Select the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon.
c. Click File from the menu, then select Format. A Format 3 1/2 Floppy window
appears.
d. Select Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the format options field, then click
Start.
Windows Vista environment
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a. From the Windows
b. Right-click Floppy Disk Drive then click Format to display the Format 3 1/2
Floppy dialog box.
c. Select the Create an MS-DOS startup disk check box.
d. Click Start.
2. Copy the original or the latest motherboard BIOS file to the bootable floppy disk.
Chapter 2: BIOS setup
desktop, click Start > My Computer.
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> Computer.
desktop, click
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