lol... claping forehead and all... It used to be necessary to write down the BIOS settings because of IDE geometry settings couldn't be auto-detected. Nowadays it's not a big deal. Some minor settings can be adjusted as necessary.
And yes, there are tools to save a copy of the BIOS settings (The BIOS CMOS is memory mapped, and you just need to save it to a file. This is completely independent of the BIOS or mobo manufacturer.) Unfortunately the BIOS settings include the password itself, so you wouldn't want to restore the saved settings directly. But there are tools to remove just the password from the BIOS. I mentioned that in my original post. -Mark On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Edwin P. Groot wrote: > Say, I think someone forgot to tell Bill to copy down the CMOS > settings (like virus-checker OFF) before using the BIOS jumper. I hope > there weren't any other important values that were not the default ones > before doing the BIOS jumper thing. > [claps forehead] Waaait, you can't copy down the CMOS settings when > the BIOS password is active! So is there a utility that can read the CMOS > settings even when there BIOS password?? > > Edwin > > At 06:11 PM 1/9/04 -0800, you wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:14:03PM -0800, Trevor Lango wrote: > >> It's not smarter; using the bios jumper (at least on my system) resets > >> everything, including the password. > > > >Yep, it worked! > > > >It also reenabled some virus-checker which didn't like LILO. Had to disable > >that and reboot. ;) > > > >-bill! > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech