Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus Motherboard M2V-MX 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.
1. ASUS EZ Flash 2 (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk, USB Flash, or
the motherboard support CD during POST.)
2. ASUS AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy
disk.)
3. ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy, or
the motherboard support CD when the BIOS file fails or gets corrupted.)
4. ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in Windows
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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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