Hi
I have gone thru pretty much all the msdos-based CMOS backup utils out there, as well as Uniflash, in an attempt to find one that will back up the whole CMOS setup as well as the FSB speed of the CPU. My current testbed is Leadtek mobo running an Award v6 bios.
Any ideas anyone?
Dave
Save CMOS and FSB speed
Reading and writing CMOS isn't difficult in principle (I wrote a program to do it in GW-Basic some years ago 
), but you need to know how big the CMOS is. Standard CMOS was 128 bytes; then there was extended (256 bytes); and there may be more on other chips.
Are you looking to copy configuration information from one machine to another or to back up one machine ? Configuration info stored in the BIOS chip (e.g. DMI, PCI tables) won't be saved by a CMOS backup program.
Uniflash has an option to save/restore CMOS.
), but you need to know how big the CMOS is. Standard CMOS was 128 bytes; then there was extended (256 bytes); and there may be more on other chips.Are you looking to copy configuration information from one machine to another or to back up one machine ? Configuration info stored in the BIOS chip (e.g. DMI, PCI tables) won't be saved by a CMOS backup program.
Uniflash has an option to save/restore CMOS.
Tested patched BIOSes. Untested patched BIOSes.
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Hi NickS
I've tried Uniflash,that didn't do it. I hadn't thought about the DMI area storing the FSB speed - maybe it's even stored in the SMBIOS area. There's utils around for reading this info from DOS, but barely any for writing it out in DOS
Dave
I've tried Uniflash,that didn't do it. I hadn't thought about the DMI area storing the FSB speed - maybe it's even stored in the SMBIOS area. There's utils around for reading this info from DOS, but barely any for writing it out in DOS
Dave
