Asus M3A78 - Chapter 2: BIOS Information; Managing and Updating Your BIOS; Creating a Bootable Floppy Disk

Chapter 2: BIOS setup 2-1
2.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS le to a oppy disk or a USB ash disk in
case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original motherboard BIOS using
the ASUS Update or AFUDOS utilities.
Chapter 2
BIOS information
2.1.1 Creating a bootable oppy disk
Create a bootable oppy disk using a different computer.
To create a bootable oppy disk:
1. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44MB oppy disk to the oppy disk drive.
2. Follow the instructions based on your system environment.
DOS environment
a. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press <Enter>.
Windows
®
XP environment
a. From the Windows
®
desktop, click Start > My Computer.
b. Select the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon.
c. Click
File from the menu, then select Format. A Format 3 1/2 Floppy window
appears.
d. Select
Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the format options eld,
then click Start.
Windows
®
Vista environment
a. From the Windows
®
desktop, click > Computer.
b. Right-click
Floppy Disk Drive then click Format to display the Format 3 1/2
Floppy dialog box.
c. Select the
Create an MS-DOS startup disk check box.
d. Click
Start.
2. Copy the original or the latest motherboard BIOS le to the bootable oppy disk.