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  1. February 21st, 2006, 11:41 AM #1
    hisham10
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    Read BIOS settings

    Hi,

    Can I read BIOS settings from windows? maybe change them also?

    Thanks alot,
    Hisham
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  2. February 22nd, 2006, 01:54 AM #2
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    Re: Read BIOS settings

    Win32_BIOS
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  3. December 13th, 2007, 02:41 AM #3
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    Cool Re: Read BIOS settings

    Yes you can

    you will use outp() and inp().

    outp(0x70,{put the bios address here 1 to 128});

    read the value with

    inp(0x71);
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  4. December 13th, 2007, 03:35 AM #4
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    Re: Read BIOS settings

    Maybe in the 80's this only works in Win95
    No version of NT (3.5x, 4.x, 2K, XP, 2K+3) will allow low-level direct
    access to the hardware.

    Thanks anyway, WMIs' class WIN32_BIOS did the job (and that was 2 years ago)
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  5. July 9th, 2008, 02:51 AM #5
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    Cool Re: Read BIOS settings

    Actually it still work... I used the same code for win95 in win2k and xp... it worked... but if you have other alternatives... you are of course free to use what you are comfortable with...
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