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chadslink
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 Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:02 pm |
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Do most new computers allow you to print the bios?
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jaylach
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:39 pm |
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None that I know of. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System and printers would not qualify.
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chadslink
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:54 pm |
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jaylach wrote: None that I know of. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System and printers would not qualify. Thats what I thought too but I was hooking up a new computer today and had a quick peek at the bios and it had a print option. I did not have the printer hooked up yet but once I got that done, I went back into the bios and clicked on the print option and sure enough when it booted up, the image was there. "Really Neat".
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jaylach
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:06 pm |
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OK, it is doing a scren capture then, not a print. I can see the screen capture but not the printing as the BIOS would not have printer drivers that would associate with a given printer.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:13 pm |
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Where and how would it save the screen capture though?
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chadslink
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:44 pm |
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MacDuffie wrote: Where and how would it save the screen capture though? I know where but I don't know how  When you click on F 12 to do the print screen, it prompts you to select the flash drive that you want to save it on. When you click of the flash drive, it brings up another window that says Screen Capture Success, Image saved in fso:\12042629027.bmp. I really like this because so many times I forget the settings.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:58 pm |
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Being a bitmap image, .bmp, it can just do a screen memory dump.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:41 pm |
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jaylach wrote: Being a bitmap image, .bmp, it can just do a screen memory dump. While I was in there messing around, I also found that you can use the mouse to make some selections and not just the up and down arrows, esc, etc;
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:59 pm |
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Aha, Chad. That makes sense. Great feature!
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:00 am |
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Chad quite a few BIOS's allow you to do a print screen, which is VERY handy if you are trying to talk someone through doing something, I find I can print screen away and then send them over the screen caps so they have a better idea of what to look for. In regards to the mouse, I know some HP's and Dell's allow me to do that but I am so used to just using the keyboard I always forget!  _________________ Michael Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Wintel) - Infrastructure Management Degree: Computer Systems - BSc (Hons) Certs: CCNA, CCNA:Security, MCP, MCTS, MCSA, MCITP:SA, MCITP:EMA 2010, MCSE:Server 2008, VTSP5, ITIL V3 Foundation http://www.michaelriccioni.com
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:38 pm |
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I have a BIOS that has drag and drop on one my computers. Great feature when setting up boot priorities.
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