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Bios screen print or capture?
Name: Far Date: October 9, 2001 at 13:44:03 Pacific
Comment:
Does anyone know of a way to do a screen print or screen capture of bios settings?
Name: luluone Date: October 9, 2001 at 14:11:59 Pacific
Reply:
Hello Far, After seeing the bios window: 1. Press Print Screen 2. Open Word 3. Press Control + V 4. Print
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Response Number 2
Name: Far Date: October 9, 2001 at 15:53:33 Pacific
Reply:
That won't work. The BIOS setting I'm referring to are the ones where you hit F2,DEL, or something to get into during the boot process. There are no OS loaded yet not even DOS.
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Response Number 3
Name: luluone Date: October 10, 2001 at 02:00:15 Pacific
Reply:
i don't agree with pyros, sorry, but without software you dont have what you need, see at www.screencapture.com
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Response Number 4
Name: Fred6008 Date: October 10, 2001 at 17:46:58 Pacific
Reply:
I do not know of any way to print the bios settings, but I thought I would mention that I have printed mine on a blank piece of paper at times.
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Response Number 5
Name: John Date: October 14, 2001 at 21:46:21 Pacific
Reply:
There must be a way........ the screen is right there in your bios rom! so Why couldn't you access bios screens from windows? someone needs to make a prog to go into your bios and extract all images, in any format.
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Response Number 6
Name: Darrell Zang Date: December 1, 2001 at 14:32:50 Pacific
Reply:
This HAS worked for me, but it does take awhile if you have many pages of BIOS settings to print....Every one of my BIOS pages has several subgroups you most open to get everything contained in the BIOS....In any event, this is what I did...
Do a power-Up Boot and press F2 (or whatever your BIOS entry is)....Once in the BIOS, press CTRL-PRTSCRN, or just PRTSCRN. This stores the page your looking at in the printer's buffer ...Then, exit the BIOS and your machine should continue to boot...Once your up, print the buffer...(I have an HP Laserjet 2100...When the buffer contains data, it's print light starts to blink....There is big button on the printer (about the size of a quarter)....Depress that button, and it will print the buffer)....If you don't have the same type of printer, check your documentation about how to print the buffer...Hope this helps
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Response Number 7
Name: chris Date: February 15, 2002 at 00:16:39 Pacific
Reply:
I agree with Far and John - the BIOS screen is just waiting to be printed out to a file. Even if someone would make a way to extract this from a BIOS update file, then you could do it under Windows. I have even seen screen dumps of BIOS screen in documention - how did they capture those screens; with a digital camera (I don't think so). Another thought, could you use PrintScreen from BIOS and then send the output through a cable to another computer's parallel port to be captured as a file??? If so, how, and has anyone done this?? Sorry, this is only questions, no answers,...yet.
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