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1 managing and updating your bios, 1 creating a bootable floppy disk, Managing and updating your bios -2 2.1.1 – Asus M3N78-AM User Manual

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Chapter 2: BIOS setup

2.1

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 2: Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk or USB flash disk.
2. ASUS AFUDOS: Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy

disk.

3. ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3: Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk,

USB flash disk, or the motherboard support DVD when the BIOS file fails or

gets corrupted.

4. ASUS Update: Updates the BIOS in Windows

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environment.

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.

2.1.1

Creating a bootable floppy disk

1. Do any of the following to create a bootable floppy disk.

DOS environment

a. Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.

b. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S. Press .

Windows

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XP environment

a. Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.

b. Click Start from the Windows

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desktop, then select My Computer.

c. Right-click the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon, then select Format.

d. Select the Create an MS-DOS startup disk checkbox.

e. Click Start.