Back in the very early days of the 8286 CPU's one of the leading bios manufacturers at that time whom i believe was called Phoenix had a utility which came with any system containing there bios which would allow you to modify/configure/set the parameters within the bios by running this utility from at that time a command prompt. I had a system with this type of bios and was using the Artic speech product and could change anything I require within the bios and then only had to reboot my machine to pick up the changes. so as with many things, all we need to do is once again make the old something new again and develop something similar for the modern day bios and make our life a little easier. If the Phoenix company is still around, maybe that would be a good place to start.
