Subject: | Re: Recording BIOS settings?
| Date: | Sat, 09 Aug 2003 17:02:14 GMT
| From: | Tom MacIntyre <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com>
| Newsgroups: | 24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.certification.a-plus,alt.computer
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 09:22:58 -0700, "Ken Blake"
<kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
>In news:1g2ajvork6f17ibjnkk3gc7t1ktq01dine@4ax.com,
>Tom MacIntyre <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com> typed:
>
>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:14:01 -0700, "Ken Blake"
>> <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
>>
>>>In news:eiUYa.1220$7z1.1118@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net,
>>>nospam@notime.org <nospam@notime.org> typed:
>>>
>>>> "Kenny" <elvis@gracelands.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:bh11vp$tameb$1@ID-126822.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>>>> Have been asked by a friend if there's any utility which will
>>>>> record current BIOS settings, perhaps as a text file, to avoid
>>>>> manually writing them all down before flashing it. I don't know,
>>>>> is there?
>>>>>
>>>> You can use "print screen" to print 'em out.
>>>
>>>
>>>Maybe. It requires that you don't have a winprinter and it requires
>>>that you don't have a USB printer. The result is that for many people
>>>these days, you can *not* use PrintScrn.
>>
>> Except under Windows...
>
>
>If you read the paragraph I wrote above in isloation, of course what I said
>is inaccurate and your addition is correct. But read it in the context of the
>thread, as a reply to what's quoted above my message, and your reply adds
>nothing.
>
>Of *course*, "except under Windows." But we're not talking about Windows;
>we're talking about using PrintScrn from within the BIOS setup screens.
Ken...I hate it when I forget a smiley. It really does change the
context of a message, doesn't it? :-)
Tom
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