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Thread ID: 29347 2003-01-17 08:42:00 Software to save/view BIOS Settings? glenn (177) Press F1
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114666 2003-01-17 08:42:00 Does anyone know of software that can save the BIOS settings to a .txt file or similar? It would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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glenn (177)
114667 2003-01-18 00:50:00 There are a lot around for AT CMOS BIOS settings . (Try "cmoser" to google) . Even I have written one . :D Unfortunately, the new BIOSs use a lot more than the 64 bytes available for the AT, so they might not be compatible .

It's not a "hard" programme to write, so I am sure that someone has written a modern one .

Unfortunately, the various BIOS makers have probably "improved" the layout of the extra settings . ;-) So there's probably a need for several, if you want the result to be hunman-readable .

It's trivial to save and restore the settings (just write the NV address to I/O port 70, and read or write the byte from/to I/O port 71 . 64 times for the traditional AT hardware; probably 256 for the modern ones . )
Graham L (2)
114668 2003-01-18 08:01:00 This one might be worth looking at, as it is dated 1996, and may be ok for the newer bios'
www.simtel.net

I havent tried it though ?:|
Terry Porritt (14)
114669 2003-01-18 18:28:00 Thank you for those. They definitely save the settings, but I really would like a utility that would allow you to view ALL your settings just as you would when you are in the BIOS. For example, see all the enabled/disabled entries, etc. That way I could e-mail the file to someone else to see what I've stuffed up!

Cheers!
glenn (177)
114670 2003-01-19 10:26:00 A possible, though long-winded, way to achieve what you want might be to use Printscreen to print out the displays of your BIOS settings then scan them to make e-mail file attachments. Robin S_ (86)
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