Asus A8N32-SLI - Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce SPP 100 ATX AMD Motherboard Deluxe - Managing and Updating Your BIOS; Creating a Bootable Floppy Disk

2-2 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. AwardBIOS Flash Utility (Updates the BIOS using a floppy disk
during POST.)
2. ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2 Utility (Updates the BIOS using a
bootable floppy disk when the BIOS gets corrupted.)
Refer to the corresponding section for details on these utilities.
Important notes
• 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 AFLASH utilities.
• Visit the system builder’s website and download the latest BIOS file
for this motherboard using the ASUS Update utility.
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 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press <Enter>.
Windows
®
XP environment
a. Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
b. Click Start from the Windows
®
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
®
2000 environment
To create a set of boot disks for Windows
®
2000: