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1 managing and updating your bios, 1 creating a bootable floppy disk – Asus M2N-MX SE User Manual

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Chapter 2: BIOS setup

2.1

Managing and updating your BIOS

The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard

Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) setup.

1. ASUS EZ Flash (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a floppy disk or

the motherboard support CD.)

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

disk.)

3. 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.)

4. ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in Windows

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environment.)

Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.

2.1.1 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.

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.

c. Click Start, then select Run.
d. From the Open field, type
D:\bootdisk\makeboot a:
assuming that D: is your optical drive.
e. Press , then follow screen instructions to continue.

Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS file to a bootable floppy

disk or a USB flash disk in case you need to restore the BIOS in the

future. Copy the original motherboard BIOS using the ASUS Update or

AFUDOS utilities.