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by djrivera2

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by norm71

Can anybody enlighten me as to the possibility of printing out the BIOS settings on a computer running WIN 98 Please.
A bit of feedback would be appreciated if it cannot be done.
NORM71

by chrisms

I'm not sure if this can be done, and to be perfectly honest, I can see no reason why anyone would want to. If you need to change your BIOS settings for any reason, the changes can always be undone by selecting to load defaults within the BIOS setup screen.
:-)

by buffalodan

I have done this...

BIOS can be printed out when there is a relatively generic printer directly connected to the computer's parallel port.

by relatively generic, I mean a printer capable of printing out unformatted text, without software assistance.

Most laser printer's and all dot matrix/impact printers are capable of doing this.

Start the computer, have the printer on-line, enter BIOS, when displaying the BIOS screen you wish recorded, hold shift key down, and press the "print Screen" key.
This will direct the contents of the display buffer out to the printer port in unformatted ascii text.

Have fun...

by chrisms

I guess you learn something new every day. Of course,as Dan points out, only generic printers are capable of doing this, which is why I did not think it could be done as I have always used inkjets.
:-)

by matt

Have some boxes that just stop resolving some addresses. (One stopped google.com and one stopped resolving fs.ml.com) I have had others but these are the most recent.

The DNS is working ok I can go to 30 other boxes and resolve everything.

I have removed and replaced Winsock removed all network adapters and replace with no resolve.

Any idea what I have misses? If I ping or trace route it will not resolve either.

by mc_user

Is there some built-in utility in W98 that will let me catalog all installed programs and Dll's? I am about to install some beta software on some test PC's and I want to keep detailed records of what the new app installs and how it modifies the OS.

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