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1 managing and updating your bios, Managing and updating your bios -2 – Asus M3A78 Pro User Manual

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Chapter 2: BIOS setup

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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, USB Flash, or the

motherboard support DVD during POST.)

2. ASUS AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy

disk.)

3. 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.