Chapter 5: Bios Setup; Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus Pundit P3-AE5 User Manual

5.1

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 (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk during POST.)
2. ASUS AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk in DOS
mode.)
3. ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in Windows
Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.
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floppy disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the
original motherboard BIOS using the AFUDOS utility.
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BIOS file for this motherboard using the ASUS Update utility.
5.1.1

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.
Windows
To create a set of boot disks for Windows
a. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. Insert the Windows
c. Click Start, then select Run.
d. From the Open field, type
D:\bootdisk\makeboot a:
assuming that D: is your optical drive.
e. Press <Enter>, then follow screen instructions to continue.
5-2
Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a bootable
Visit the ASUS website (www.asus.com) and download the latest
XP environment
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2000 environment
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2000 CD to the optical drive.
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environment.)
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desktop, then select My Computer.
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2000:
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Chapter 5: BIOS setup