Thanks for that info Kerry. How does a pc-wiesel board work, and where do I get one from? Greg On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > The default dump location for print screen is the parallel port. > Even if this does work in bios; It would only read screen from top to bottom > and it would not tellyou any colour information at all. > The only viable way to get speech in bios is with a > pc-wiesel board $350US or to go get > an Alpha or a spark or wait for openbios to be available > for more chipsets. I hear it supports serial port config. > Normal bioses especially award are inaccessable to my knowledge. > You could write a program to read and write the cmos yourself provided you know > what system specific bits your system board uses it changes for > each board and chipset. This is why this has not been done > before; motherboard manifacturers customize the bios before flashing it > into the board. > there is mrbios; not sure if it supports serial and what boards it supports. > > Regards, Kerry.
