Is there a quick way to confirm settings?

[slattynan]

I want to be able to confirm that every setting in a BIOS is identical to another unit. I was wondering if there was a way to grab the BIOS checksum and compare? and if there is would the checksum be identical accross different units?


Any ideas?

Thanks

Slatt

[slattynan]

Come on guys. I thought this was the home of BIOS experts?

[cp]

if you mean by settings the actual settings made by the user then you have to dump the contents of the CMOS (often called NVRAM) which is NOT a part of the bios but a battery powered memory in the southbridge. it can be read by using memory mapped ports.

here are the sources to an nvram dumping tool. this is a good starting point to write your own application.
http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/corebo ... /nvramtool