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Asus A88XM-A User Manual

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Chapter 2: BIOS information

Booting the system to a DOS environment

1.

Insert the USB flash drive with the latest BIOS file and BIOS Updater to the USB port.

2.

Boot your computer. When the ASUS Logo appears, press to show the BIOS

Boot Device Select Menu. Insert the support DVD into the optical drive and select the

optical drive as the boot device.

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 to switch the disk from Drive C

(optical drive) to Drive D (USB flash drive).

Updating the BIOS file

To update the BIOS file using BIOS Updater:
1.

At the FreeDOS prompt, type bupdater /pc /g and press .

2.

The BIOS Updater screen appears as below.

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A88XMA.CAP 8194 2013-05-08 15:25:48

05/08/2013

A88XM-A

ASUSTek BIOS Updater for DOS V1.30