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If you have a parallel port printer,
Try this:
Press the "Print Screen" key,
Wait about 30 seconds, then press the form-feed button on the printer.
even with most "parallel port" printers, this will give you a print out of
the BIOS window.
It works because the laser and inkjet printer wait for either a full page of
data or a form-feed command to start printing in the DOS mode.
Unfortunately, USB printers do not know any DOS commands, like lots of
computer techs today.
"glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com> wrote in message
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> If I had a dime for every time this question was asked..... ;-)
> Short answer is, I know of no way to accomplish what you want.
>
> Long answer, there may be alternatives.
> I have seen a number of utilities that claim to save your BIOS settings to
> a file,
> but they all save them to a binary file which does not display as any
> intelligible
> characters, and certainly not useful for printing either.
>
> Some older printers (I mean at least 6 or 7 years old) were capable of
> printing
> without any drivers loaded, and without Windows running. For example, on
> an older
> system here, I have an Epson Stylus Color 640, and I can press the
> PrintScreen key
> at each BIOS screen, and it will print out the screen contents, though not
> in a
> formatted page.
> Some BIOS (IIRC AMi BIOS from certain years) actually had a built-in
> option in the
> BIOS to print the info, but I don't know if that worked with printers that
> required
> Windows drivers to be loaded in order to print.
>
> On alternative is to use a digital camera to take a snapshot of each BIOS
> screen,
> and save the photos as image files on your hard drive of on a CD-R.
>
> Hope this helps.....
> --
> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
>
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> "b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> I'd like to print the BIOS windows I see on the screen. How could I do
>> that
>> using a printer that functions after I boot my computer?
>