Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus P5BV-C - Motherboard - ATX User 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.
ASUS AFUDOS: Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy
1.
disk.
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2: Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk
2.
when the BIOS file fails or gets corrupted.
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.
4.1.1

Creating a bootable floppy disk

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>.
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