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1 managing and updating your bios, 1 creating a bootable floppy disk, Dos environment – Asus Pedestal/5U Rackmount Server TS500-E4 Server User Manual

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Chapter 5: BIOS information

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. Phoenix Phlash16 BIOS Flash Utility (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode

using a bootable floppy disk.)

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

disk or the motherboard support CD when the BIOS file fails or gets

corrupted.)

3. ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in Windows

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environment.)

Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.

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.ss

Windows

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2000 environment

To create a set of boot disks for Windows

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2000:

a. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. Insert the Windows

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2000 CD to the optical drive.

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 Phoenix Phlash16 BIOS

utilities. Refer to page 5-3 for details.

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