Bios Information; Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk; Using Afudos To Copy The Current Bios - Fujitsu Siemens Computers D1711 Technical Manual

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2.1 Managing and updating your BIOS

The AFUDOS utilitiy allows you to manage and update the mainboard Basic Input/Output System
(BIOS) setup.
Save a copy of the original mainboard BIOS file to a bootable floppy disk in case you
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need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original mainboard BIOS using the
AFUDOS utilitiy.

2.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk

1. Do either one of the following to create a bootable floppy disk.
DOS environment
► Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
► At the prompt, type:
Format A:/s !
Windows XP environment
► Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
► From your Windows desktop, click on Start, the select My Computer.
► Select the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon.
► Click File from the menu, then select Format.
A Format 3 1/2 Floppy Drive window appears.
► Select Create an MS-DOS statup disk from the format options field, then click Start.
2. Copy the original (or the latest) mainboard BIOS to the bootable floppy disk.

2.1.2 Using AFUDOS to copy the current BIOS

The AFUDOS utilitiy can also be used to copy the current system BIOS settings to a floppy or hard
disk. The copy can be used as a backup in case the system BIOS fails or gets corrupted.
1. At the DOS prompt, type the command line:
afudos /o [filename]
where filename can be any user-provided filename of not more than eight alphanumeric
characters for the main filename and three alphanumeric characters for the extension name.
Press ! .
The BIOS information on the screen is for reference only. What you see on your screen
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may not be exactly the same as shown.
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