Is there anyway to make a back up c

[fenix]

Is there anyway to make a back up copy of your BIOS with Windows? Or do you need a 3rd party utility? How would you use it if you BIOS became corrupted becasue it wouldn't seem that you could ever get to an A prompt if your BIOS wasn't functioning to boot the machine? thx. any thoughts appreciated.

 

[Enigma666]

No, you cannot back up your BIOS. Your BIOS (Basic Input\Output System is used to directly manipulate the hardware of your machine in order to perform the commands you give it. To my knowledge, atleast, you can flash your BIOS in order to upgrade, otherwise, I don't think that your BIOS are easily coorupted. I think it's your registry you should back up (we all do stupid things). The command can be given by clicking on start, then run. In the text space, type regback, and this will back up your registry. There may very well be a way, however I don't think it's a common practice, therefore, (possibly) not that important.

 

[Eelad]

Just do a printout of each screen in your bios menu. That way you can check your origionals if you start changing them and something goes wrong.

 

[edfair]

You can use debug to get to it for display purposes. If you know machine language programming you could access it and save it to disk. Depending on the system, you might even use a prom programmer to blow a new one. Burner software might even access it to be able to write it to disk.
The suggestion on CMOS above is a good one fenix, you might want to follow it up. Ed Fair
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[fenix]

thx for all the ideas, will take some pix.

 

[denutz]

In my experience, using flash software from a MB mfr will offer the option to backup your existing bios as XXXXX.bin. Simply create the flash boot disk, run the flash utility option to backup your existing bios, and exit. Simple and straightforward.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I believe you can... I will double check, I thought I remember somewhere where it can be done. Mike Wills
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