ASUS ESC2000 Personal SuperComputer 用户手册

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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

The following utilities allow you to manage and update the motherboard Basic 

Input/Output System (BIOS) setup:

1. 

AFUDOS utility (Updates the BIOS in DOS mode using a bootable USB 

flash disk drive.)

2. 

ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 (To recover the BIOS using a bootable USB flash 

disk drive when the BIOS file fails or gets corrupted.)

Refer to the corresponding sections for details on these utilities.

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

 USB flash 

disk drive 

in case you need to restore the BIOS in the future. Copy the original 

motherboard BIOS using the ASUS Update or AFUDOS utilities.

The AFUDOS utility allows you to update the BIOS file in DOS environment using 

a bootable USB flash disk drive with the updated BIOS file. This utility also allows 

you to copy the current BIOS file that you can use as backup when the BIOS fails 

or gets corrupted during the updating process.

To copy the current BIOS file using the AFUDOS utility:

The succeeding BIOS screens are for reference only. The actual BIOS screen 

displays may not be the same as shown.

1.  Copy the AFUDOS utility (afudos.exe) from the motherboard support CD to 

the bootable USB flash disk drive you created earlier.

2.  Boot the system in DOS mode, then at the prompt type:

afudos /o[filename]
where the [filename] is any user-assigned filename not more than eight 

alphanumeric characters  for the main filename and three alphanumeric 

characters for the extension name.