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Chapter 3, Backing up the current bios – Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 User Manual

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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

Chapter 3

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).

Welcome to FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org)!

C:\>d:

D:\>

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.

ASUSTek BIOS Updater for DOS V1.30 [2012/12/22]

Current ROM

Update ROM

Note

Saving BIOS:

PATH:

A:\

BOARD:

M5A97 EVO R2.0

VER:

0206

DATE:

06/18/2012

BOARD:

Unknown

VER:

Unknown

DATE:

Unknown

BIOS backup is done! Press any key to continue.

D:\>bupdater /oOLDBIOS1.rom

Filename Extension

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 enough free space to save

the file.

1.

At the FreeDOS prompt, type bupdater /o[filename] and press .

The [filename] is any user-assigned filename with no more than eight alphanumeric

characters for the filename and three alphanumeric characters for the extension.