Chapter 2: bios information, 1 managing and updating your bios, 1 creating a bootable floppy disk – Asus P5QL User Manual
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ASUS P5QL
2-1
Chapter 2
BIOS information
2.1
Managing and updating your BIOS
Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a 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.
Create a bootable floppy disk using a different computer.
To create a bootable floppy disk:
1.
Insert a formatted, high density 1.44MB floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
2.
Follow the instructions based on your system environment.
DOS environment
a. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press
Windows
®
XP environment
a. From the Windows
®
desktop, click Start > My Computer.
b. Select the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon.
c. Click
File from the menu bar, then select Format. A Format 3 1/2 Floppy window
appears.
d. Select
Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the format options field, then click
Start.
Windows
®
Vista environment
a. From the Windows
®
desktop, click
> Computer.
b. Right-click
Floppy Disk Drive then click Format to display the Format 3 1/2
Floppy dialog box.
c. Select the
Create an MS-DOS startup disk check box.
d. Click
Start.
2.1.1
Creating a bootable floppy disk