News of General BIOS Questions

I have a software application running on a pc running windows. Is it possible to achieve following:

1) When I connect it to power socket, it boots up and take me to desktop( which is a usual behaviour I believe when any pc is connected to power outlet)
2) (Here is a tricky one), While doing my work and computer running, I remove power plug, computer shuts down, However, on plugging it back in, it ...

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In the Bios I can set the time (and date) manually
so that the Computer boots automatically at the desired time.

I am a Visual Basic Programmer. -Is it possibble to set the Boot-time
and Boot-date by a self written WinXP program?

My motherboard is an ASUS A7V-E with Award BIOS (WinXP).

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I have a Packard Dell desktop with Windows Vista and recently my graphics card burned out (to such an extent that I can’t use it again to disable). I took my PC to PC World and the assistant in the shop replaced my graphics card with a nvidia GeeForce 8400GS. He told me that when I got home I’d need to disable my old graphics card, but when I turn on my computer to ...

Hello, I have a HP pavilion a1210n (A8AE-LE AmberineM motherboard) that I have kept alive over the years with hardware upgrades. I have read where some bios revisions on certain motherboards resulted in large performance gains but I cannot find any revision notes on the A8AE-LE bios updates, I checked and I'm currently using bios revision 3.07 and I see they are up to 3.15 now.

My question is for anybody that can remember if ...

This is my current BIOS (http://www.box.com/s/enujrt37xjzyc9t8f9id (modded version A10)) installed in my Dell Dimension 4700 and what I'd like to do is change the BIOS version and date. I tried replacing the five "A10" (I left one A10 alone because it appears in older version that I looked at) and the date in the .hdr header file, fixed the CRC32 and tried flashing it but it won't do it ...

I have a HP Pavilion Media Center whose on-board sound stopped working after a bios upgrade. Flash video also started playing at 3x speed. Thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to answer:
1. I have Phoenix-Award BIOS. I should use the Award (Not the Phoenix) flashing/recovery methods correct?
2. I upgraded my BIOS using a sp26713.exe file. Do I need to back up my current BIOS or can I use the sp26713 file that ...

I have an old Gateway with an Intel EA81510A motherboard and would like to replace the dumbed-down OEM bios with retail Intel bios. I am aware I can use the recovery procedure to accomplish this, but unfortunately I have been unable to locate any floppy disks to use. Intel uses signed bios, so instead of targeting the bios I have taken to reversing the dos flasher. From what I have gathered online, it is supposed ...

How do i reformat my gateway pc via bios? I got a virus, it wont allow to reformat the normal way. Now i hav to reformat via the bios. Can i please get a step by step instrustion on how? Websites? Personal? Anything please!!

Does anyone know where I might find a screenshot of the Insyde 3.5 Setup Util, system Configuration menu? I found the main menu here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf-JAVA/Doc/images/c01564213.jpg, but want to see how the Sys Config menu is structured. I am trying to assist my brother over the phone.

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I have a PC (Linux OS)that has an EFI BIOS. I wanted some clarity on the following questions

1. Does UEFI support Interrupt handling (ISR implementation)? If yes, what is the procedure?
2. Do we need to write the Interrupt handler routine and register it in the EFI code? If it possible, do we have any utilities which help us to carry this out?
3. If the handler cannot be registered in the UEFI ...