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How can I take a screenshot of my PC's BIOS?
metal gear solid
Posted 2009-10-23T15:44:46.570
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How to take a screenshot of my PC's BIOS?
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Take a camera, point it at the screen and take a picture.
Unless you have some kind of very fancy KVM switch that works over network (no, the cheap home user ones don't do that). Then you can do a direct screen capture on the receiving end, I think. Requires another computer, though.
Yet another option would involve a graphics card with TV out, a video capture card and another computer too. And some hope that video out works in text mode out of the box. I think you can guess where that goes.
Seriously, take a camera. It's by far the easiest and quickest way of getting a screen grab of something that happens way before you control the computer.
Joey
Posted 2009-10-23T15:44:46.570
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You can use an IP KVM switch with 'BIOS level access' (not exactly cheap though) and access the BIOS 'remotely' from another machine and take 'proper' screenshots there.
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Some motherboards can be set up to push the boot-up and BIOS interface out the serial port. If your's can, then you could connect it to another machine with a terminal emulator running, and take a screen capture of the terminal emulator window.
Shannon Nelson
Posted 2009-10-23T15:44:46.570
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That's how I do it, 5MP phone camera works well. I've also done this for error messages that are displayed before logging in. – Bratch – 2010-04-16T18:14:58.530
Maybe set it on burst mode. – random – 2009-10-23T15:56:01.850
eight? What exactly are you referring to? – Joey – 2009-10-23T15:56:51.147
Was mis-thinking of the load up screen for the second it took to comment. – random – 2009-10-23T16:02:49.543