On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:21, Chris Kloiber wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:34 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:25, dalen wrote: > > > Chadley Wilson wrote: > > > > Hello friends, > > > > > > > > Does any one know how to get screenshots of your bios? > > > > > > > Lots of interesting replies. I haven't tried this myself, but you might > > > try and connect another computer to the printer port with a crossover > > > cable and set it to emulate a printer. Then Press printscreen on the > > > first computer during the boot process. > > > > Interesting idea, what would a printer crossover cable consist of? Is > > there a utility that can receive the data via a crossover cable? > > Maybe an "antique" laplink parallel cable would do? > > > One other thought. Use the Print Screen key to a real printer and scan > > in the results. > > There you go. > > -- > Chris Kloiber I checked the pinout referenced by dalen in an earlier post, it looks like laplink transfers data in 5 bit chunks. That's all that is available as input to a standard parallel port. A screen dump would, ideally, require an 8 bit byte per character, but you could probably get away with 6 (all caps and no graphics). Anyway, a laplink crossover cable would not do well, even if there existed software to receive the data. Does anyone know if an ECP/EPP parallel port can be put into 8 bit bi-directional mode? If so, a userspace parallel port utility should be possible to grab a screen dump and display or save it. Bob...
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