Managing And Updating Your Bios; Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus M2N DH User Manual

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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.
ASUS EZ Flash 2 (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk, USB Flash, or the
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motherboard support CD during POST.)
ASUS AFUDOS (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable floppy
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disk.)
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 (Updates the BIOS using a bootable floppy, USB
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Flash disk, or the motherboard support CD when the BIOS file fails or gets
corrupted.)
ASUS Update (Updates the BIOS in Windows
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Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.
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.
4.1.1

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 <Enter>.
Windows XP environment
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a. Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
b. Click Start from the Windows
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 2000 environment
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To create a set of boot disks for Windows
a. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. Insert the Windows
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 <Enter>, then follow screen instructions to continue.
ASUS M2N / M2N DH
desktop, then select My Computer.
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2000 CD to the optical drive.
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environment.)
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