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1 managing and updating your bios, 1 creating a bootable floppy disk – Asus RS120-E5/PA2 User Manual

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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

5.1

Managing and updating your BIOS

The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic

Input/Output System (BIOS) setup.
1. ASUS.AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy

disk.)

2. ASUS.CrashFree.BIOS.3 (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk or

the motherboard support CD when the BIOS file fails or gets corrupted.)

5.1.1

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 .

Windows

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XP environment

a. Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
b. Click Start from the Windows

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desktop, then select My.Computer.

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. Select Create.an.MS-DOS.startup.disk from the format options field, then

click Start.

2. Copy the original or the latest motherboard BIOS file to the bootable floppy

disk.

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.