Backing Up The Current Bios - Asus P8H61-MX Manual

3. When the Make Disk menu appears, select the FreeDOS command prompt item by
pressing the item number.
4. At the FreeDOS prompt, type d: and press <Enter> to switch the disk from
Drive C (optical drive) to Drive D (USB flash drive).
Welcome to FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org)!
C:\>d:
D:\>

Backing up the current BIOS

To backup the current BIOS file using the BIOS Updater
Ensure that the USB flash drive is not write-protected and has at least 4MB free space to
save the file.
1. At the FreeDOS prompt, type bupdater /o[filename] and press <Enter>.
D:\>bupdater /oOLDBIOS1.rom
The [filename] is any user-assigned filename with no more than eight alphanumeric
characters for the filename and three alphanumeric characters for the extension.
2. The BIOS Updater backup screen appears indicating the BIOS backup process. When
BIOS backup is done, press any key to return to the DOS prompt.
BOARD:
VER:
DATE:
PATH:
Note
Saving BIOS:
2-4
Filename Extension
ASUSTek BIOS Updater for DOS V1.18
Current ROM
P8H61-MX
0208
07/14/2011
A:\
BIOS backup is done! Press any key to continue.
Update ROM
BOARD: Unknown
VER: Unknown
DATE: Unknown
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