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1 managing and updating your bios, 1 creating a bootable floppy disk, Dos environment – Asus Terminator 2 Barebone System T2-R 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.

AFUDOS

(Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy disk.)

2.

ASUS EZ Flash

(Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk during POST.)

3.

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2

(Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy disk

or the support CD when the BIOS gets corrupted.)

4.

ASUS Update

(Updates the BIOS in Windows

®

environment.)

Refer to the corresponding section for each utility.

5.1.1 Creating a bootable floppy disk

1.

Do either one of the following to create a bootable floppy disk.

DOS environment

Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive. At the DOS prompt, type:

format A:/S then press

.

Windows

®

98SE/ME environment

a. From your Windows

®

desktop, click on Start, then select My

Computer.

b. Double-click on Add/Remove Programs icon from the Control

Panel window.

c. Click on the Startup Disk tab, then on Create Disk... button.

d. Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk when prompted. Follow the

succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.

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 AFUDOS or the
ASUS Update utilities.

A working BIOS file for this motherboard is in the support CD.
Use this file only when you do not have a copy of the original
motherboard BIOS file in a floppy disk.

Visit the ASUS website and download the latest BIOS file for this
motherboard using the ASUS Update utility.

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