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Name: Evilmaiden
Hi,
is there anyway to take a screenshot in the bios coz anyhow when u exit the bios the computer has to restart so i was thinkin that there might be a program that saves it to the HD in boot or something :D (the screenshot)
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There is no way of taking a screen shot of the BIOS screen. There is nothing loaded that is capable of writing to a hard disk.
When you exit the BIOS it is saved to CMOS memory and read again when the computer restarts.
Stuart
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You can try using a digital camera to take pictures of your monitor ;).
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lool. but ive seen websites with examples and they have screeshots of the bios, like windowsadviser and u can tell that its not takin of the monitor...
thanx anywayz ;)Upgrade to 64bit edition for free? :D
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Like Frosty said, it was probably taken with a digital camera.
Like I said, there is nothing in the BIOS capable of writing to the hard disk. You need an operating system for that. There is no operating system present when the BIOS screen is displayed.
Think about it. Hard disks come in a variety of formats from FAT 12,16,32, NTFS, HPFS, and the various shades of Linux. The BIOS would need to know about all of them in order to write to the hard disk in such a way that it can be recovered.
Look at this. You can even see the curvature of the screen.
http://www.hothardware.com/image_popup.cfm?image=big_dram_timings.jpg&articleid=556&t=a
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this begs the question why would you want a screen shot of the bios? Record the settings? Some bios's have the option of backing up to a 2nd bios [same chip] as protection from bios virus's. Maybey yours has that option.
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sometimes i need to know somethin from the bios like the name of something or one of the settings or options, and the only way to see them is to restart :|
would updating my bios give extra options?
i dont even know how to flash my bios and im scared i might destroy my comp :'(
here are my bios info:
Field Value
BIOS Properties
Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version 6.00 PG
Release Date 11/01/2002
Size 256 KB
Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP, LS-120
Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD
Supported Standards DMI, APM, ACPI, ESCD, PnP
Expansion Capabilities ISA, PCI, AGP, USB
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