Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus Vintage 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. AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy
disk.)
2. ASUS EZ Flash (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk during
POST.)
Refer to the corresponding section for each utility.
• 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 AFUDOS utility.
• Refer to the ASUS website for details about updating the BIOS.

5.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk

1. Do either one of the following to create a bootable floppy disk.
DOS environment
Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk into the drive. At the DOS prompt, type:
format A:/S then press <Enter>.
Windows ® XP environment
a. Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
b. From your Windows
Computer.
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.
2. Copy the original (or the latest) motherboard BIOS to the bootable
floppy disk.
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® desktop, click on Start, then select My