Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus P5GC-MR User Manual

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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 BIOS3 (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk or
2.
USB flash drive when the BIOS file fails or gets corrupted.)
ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in Windows
3.
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

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 XP environment
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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. Windows
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format options field, then click Start.
Windows 2000 environment
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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. In the Open field, type D:\bootdisk\makeboot a:
assuming that D is your optical drive letter.
e. Press <Enter>, then follow screen instructions to continue.
2. Copy the original or the latest motherboard BIOS file to the bootable floppy
disk.
ASUS P5GC-MR
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XP users: Select Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the
2000 CD to the optical drive.
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environment.)
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desktop, then select My Computer.
2000:
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