Asus DSBV-DX - Managing and Updating Your BIOS; Creating a Bootable Floppy Disk

ASUS DSBV-DX Series 4-1
4.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic
Input/Output System (BIOS) setup:
1.
Phoenix Phlash16 BIOS Flash Utility
(Updates the BIOS in DOS mode
using a bootable oppy disk.)
2.
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2
(To recover the BIOS using a bootable oppy disk
when the BIOS le fails or gets corrupted.)
3.
ASUS Update
(Updates the BIOS in Windows
®
environment.)
Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.
Save a copy of the original motherboard BIOS le to a bootable oppy disk in
case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original motherboard
BIOS using the ASUS Update or Phoenix Phlash16 BIOS utilities. Refer to page
4-3 for details.
4.1.1 Creating a bootable oppy disk
1. Do either one of the following to create a bootable oppy disk.
DOS environment
a. Insert a 1.44MB oppy 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 oppy disk to the oppy disk drive.
b. Click
Start
from the Windows
®
desktop, then select
My Computer
.
c. Select the
3 ½ Floppy Drive
icon.
d. Right click
File
from the menu, then select
Format
.
A Format 3½
Floppy Disk
window appears.
e. Select
Create an MS-DOS startup disk
from the format options eld,
then click
Start
.