I wish I knew what I had, is there an autodetect that will tell me how to toggle a few settings? I actually need it on my dell laptop, more than likely the bios is made by dell, as they offer flash roms for it. What do hex editors do? Does it actually make text out of the file you edit with, and convert it back later? Can the setup be done over a remote connection easily some how, have the cmos answer a modem or something so I can change the power settings to allow me to read documents without the laptop going on standby? It just could be that if I flash rom something that takes long enough that the machine might just go on standby and totally make useless the device I was working with. Why is /dev/nvram in existence, I just loaded the module and ran MAKEDEV NVRAM because the device driver wasn't found. At 09:15 AM