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Article #728Re: Printing BIOS information - HELP!!!
From: Eric de Haan
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:00
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tatosian@plough.enet.dec.com (Dave Tatosian) writes: >In article <344074792wnr@jfinl.demon.co.uk>, > Joseph Finlay <Joseph@jfinl.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>Can Bios parameters be printed from screen to printer? >> >>Print Scrn key does not work until boot up is complete. There must be an >>easier way than writing everthing down in long hand. This is seriously >>pissing me off!!! >Hmmm...If you have a printer that can handle either IBM Proprinter or Graphics >emulation hooked up to LPT1:, the Print Screen function *should* work (at >least it works on my collection of four systems, only two of which are >similarly constructed). >Assuming you have the "right" type of printer and it's hooked to LPT1:, if the >Print Screen doesn't work while you're in the cmos setup, I'd guess your bios >is indeed the limiting factor (Bad Bios! Bad BAD Bios!)... in my system the printscreen only works for the bios-screens if there has been a previous, compleet boot. i expect some inits have to be completed... >Cheers! >/dave ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ><> Dave Tatosian tatosian@plough.enet.dec.com <> ><> Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha Server Engineering <> ><> "Read this and nobody gets hurt ;^)" <> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> bye, Eric dehaan@fwi.uva.nl --------------------------- legal notice: Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in whole or in part, without a license. License to distribute this work is available to Microsoft at $499. Transmission without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,f472e2a38dc1cf5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,1d278c26ce6abb1a X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: dehaan@fwi.uva.nl (Eric de Haan) Subject: Re: Printing BIOS information - HELP!!! Date: 1995/11/20 Message-ID: <48pvoj$la@ow57.fwi.uva.nl> X-Deja-AN: 119764235 distribution: world references: <344074792wnr@jfinl.demon.co.uk> <48hml5$6sh@peavax.eng.pko.dec.com> organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,demon.tech.pc