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Special Forums IP Networking Unix Internet Connection Post 2053 by mib on Monday 16th of April 2001 01:22:12 PM

04-16-2001

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How do I check my BIOS? I have tried looking in the linuxconf and in my etc/rc.d files but find nothing? I'm extremely new at all this and am slowly learning have to say it is fun and this site is a big help. Thanx.

Ok. so you couldn't find BIOS in these directory. never mind. I will tell you how to access BIOS in your computer.

The BIOS(Basic Input Output System) is built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk(HDD, FDD, CD). BIOS gives the computer a little built-in starter kit to run the rest of softwares from hard disks (or FDD, CD). The BIOS is responsible for booting the computer by providing a basic set of instructions. It performs all the tasks that need to be done at start-up time: POST (Power-On Self Test, booting an operating system from FDD or HDD). Furthermore, it provides an interface to the underlying hardware for the operating system in the form of a library of interrupt handlers. For instance, each time a key is pressed, the CPU (Central Processing Unit) perform an interrupt to read that key. This is similar for other input/output devices (Serial and parallel ports, video cards, sound cards, hard disk controllers, etc...).

Computers display instructions while the system is booting on how to access the system BIOS. A key usually accesses the BIOS or you will need to press a combination of keys before the Operating System begins to load. Some common keys are ESC, F1, F2, F10, Ctrl-Del, or Del. For more information, check the documentation that came with your computer.

I think for gateway it is F1 Key(or whatch your monito while system boots up. it will show press <Key> to enter setup.)

ok now now press F1 key while system boot. yep you are there. now all things are menu driven and easy follow.

now set Controller Mode in PC CARD section to PCIC Compatible. Also disable PNP(Plug 'n Pray Smilie

). it is in PNP section. now save all changes and reboot system. if it gives same error in system log(or any error) come back to us. let us see how far we can go!

read http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html

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nvram

NVRAM(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  NVRAM(4)

NAME

     nvram -- non-volatile RAM

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device nvram

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   nvram_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The nvram driver provides access to BIOS configuration NVRAM on i386 and amd64 systems.

     PC motherboard uses a small non-volatile memory to store BIOS settings which is usually part of its clock chip and sometimes referred as
     ``CMOS SRAM''.  This driver exposes bytes 14 through 128 of the NVRAM, or a total of 114 bytes, at offset zero of the device file /dev/nvram.

     This driver is useful for cloning machines that shares the same hardware configuration and need same BIOS setting tweaks.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     The BIOS NVRAM's bytes 16 through 31 are checksummed at byte 32.  This driver does not take care for these checksums.

EXAMPLES

     Backup existing BIOS NVRAM to nvram.bin:

	   dd if=/dev/nvram of=nvram.bin

     Restore BIOS NVRAM from nvram.bin:

	   dd if=nvram.bin of=/dev/nvram

SEE ALSO

     dd(1)

HISTORY

     The nvram device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.4.

AUTHORS

     The nvram device driver was written by Peter Wemm.  This manual page was written by Xin LI.

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