MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Sun Jan 22 11:50:13 CST 2006
There are a lot of DOS assembler programs out there that save, restore and display the first 128 bytes of CMOS You might wonder why they save only 128 bytes of CMOS even though some modern computers have many times that amount in extendeded BIOS. The problem is the way you get at the rest of it is proprietary. The vendors won't disclose how you get at it. It is possible to disassemble the ROM BIOS to figure it out in an individual case. There is also a way to get at BIOS passwords. You can hit PrintScrn when in BIOS settings area to save settings to paper. I used this on old 286's to remember cyls and heads disk settings, when the bios didn't check beforehand as they do now. You can view a lot of BIOS settings via WMI. for example to find manufacture of BIOS http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adminscripts/computermanagement/hardware/#RetrBiosInfo.htm or http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/wmi/samples/hw/#Win32_BIOS.htm On this above site there are a lot more vbs scripts that could be translated to VBA to get at specific info.. I suppose you could try the individual BIOS manufactures site. Going back about 10 years AMI had some programs to display info. Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote: >Hi All, > >Did anybody use subj utilities like hwsetup? >(http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=102215&seqNum=4&rl=1) > >I have never seen/used it - I just wanted to have something like BIOS setup >to run from Windows in "virtual" mode - I mean I don't need to change BIOS >setup options while MS Windows is running - I just wanted to investigate >them... > >Thank you for any additional info on subject. >Shamil > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada