Has anyone ever used bioswriter or a similar utility to get your bios settings from CMOS? I'm trying to read it with bioswriter with little success as I'm not sure what to do with the image file. I'm wondering there is a way to hack this bios to let me turn "plug and play os" off, as I'm fairly certain it's on by default and the given interface is pretty limited. Or am I breaking the law to edit my bios settings.... on the computer I OWN. Wes -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.
Wes, The location in BIOS for the PNP setting is not cast in concrete. Unless you know which bit does the job, it is pretty hard to figure it out. When you do figure it out, each block of 16 bytes (I think) includes a checksum. so in addition to changing the bit, you'll also need to change the checksum. --Skip
-----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Wes Allen Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:19 PM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] bioswriter
Has anyone ever used bioswriter or a similar utility to get your bios settings from CMOS? I'm trying to read it with bioswriter with little success as I'm not sure what to do with the image file.
I'm wondering there is a way to hack this bios to let me turn "plug and play os" off, as I'm fairly certain it's on by default and the given interface is pretty limited.
Or am I breaking the law to edit my bios settings.... on the computer I OWN.
Wes -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.
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This is what I was afraid of. Oh well, maybe one of the freeBIOS' will come along and I can try flashing this thing out of existence (if my chip is supported, that is...). Wes On Thursday 19 December 2002 10:13 pm, Skip Gaede wrote:
Wes,
The location in BIOS for the PNP setting is not cast in concrete. Unless you know which bit does the job, it is pretty hard to figure it out.
When you do figure it out, each block of 16 bytes (I think) includes a checksum. so in addition to changing the bit, you'll also need to change the checksum.
--Skip
-----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Wes Allen Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:19 PM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] bioswriter
Has anyone ever used bioswriter or a similar utility to get your bios settings from CMOS? I'm trying to read it with bioswriter with little success as I'm not sure what to do with the image file.
I'm wondering there is a way to hack this bios to let me turn "plug and play os" off, as I'm fairly certain it's on by default and the given interface is pretty limited.
Or am I breaking the law to edit my bios settings.... on the computer I OWN.
Wes -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.
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