Anyone know how to take a *good* screenshot of a BIOS?

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Gurus,

Anyone know how to take a *good* screenshot of a BIOS? I am trying to use
my digital camera an while it comes out *ok* it doesn't look as good
obviously as if one were doing a ALT+Print Screen. Suggestions welcome!
 
Gurus,

Anyone know how to take a *good* screenshot of a BIOS? I am trying to use
my digital camera an while it comes out *ok* it doesn't look as good
obviously as if one were doing a ALT+Print Screen. Suggestions welcome!
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I used my digital camera, but best with a tripod.
What do you mean by OK?
 
If you use an older parallel port printer, you can print that screen shot,
direct from the bios

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Spin said:
Gurus,

Anyone know how to take a *good* screenshot of a BIOS? I am trying to
use my digital camera an while it comes out *ok* it doesn't look as
good obviously as if one were doing a ALT+Print Screen. Suggestions
welcome!
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While you won't get awesome pictures taking a picture of a CRT, I have done
it many times.

You have to set up the camera for a Macro or Super Macro shot (Macro is
close in), use no flash, reduce the exposure time, and probably turn down
the brightness of the CRT as well.
 
Spin said:
Gurus,

Anyone know how to take a *good* screenshot of a BIOS? I am trying to use
my digital camera an while it comes out *ok* it doesn't look as good
obviously as if one were doing a ALT+Print Screen. Suggestions welcome!
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i found this...
but i think i'd just use a camera
 
Spin said:
Gurus,

Anyone know how to take a *good* screenshot of a BIOS? I am trying to use
my digital camera an while it comes out *ok* it doesn't look as good
obviously as if one were doing a ALT+Print Screen. Suggestions welcome!
Click to expand...

Some modern BIOSes allow remote control from a second computer, i.e.
via console (e.g. hyperterm) or telnet or even web.
On that second computer, one can use standard screenshot methods...

Hagen
 
Just curious - there are probably 30 to 50 BIOS setting pages - HP includes
a print screen function with many of the all-in-one printers.
 
Gurus,

Anyone know how to take a *good* screenshot of a BIOS? I am trying to use
my digital camera an while it comes out *ok* it doesn't look as good
obviously as if one were doing a ALT+Print Screen. Suggestions welcome!
Click to expand...
Consider a good polarizing filter attachment for your camera. Check
with the digital camera's maker for how one would attach such a filter
and availability. A polarizing filter will help you tune out glare and
reflections. Clean it up with any number of digital photo editing
applications. A polarizing filter is a handy thing to have on
vacations in the Caribbean. You can shoot crystal clear images of coral
reefs or sea life from the surface.

Find out your monitor's vertical blanking period. Set your camera to
shutter priority and make sure that you don't set your camera's shutter
for the same setting as the monitor's vertical blanking period.

On a television set a shutter at 1/60th sec will catch the tv's vertical
blanking period and you will get an image with a black horizontal bar
through the middle of it. Anything slower 1/30th sec or anything faster
1/100th sec will avoid this.

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Hi,
If money is not a factor, let me suggest A TCP/IP enabled KVM unit (Search
the net, they are out there, some cheap).
From one computer on the same network (or over the internet if the client
has a public IP) you can establish the IP session to the KVM
(keyboard/video/mouse) unit
and actually hit the delete or F key to enter the BIOS of the remote PC.
Once there, you can get full color screen shots of the BIOS screen on the
remote PC.
This is the best way if you want good clear BIOS screenshots that look as if
you hit printscreen while in windows.
Have fun and you're welcome....
 
pickedaname said:
Hi,
If money is not a factor, let me suggest A TCP/IP enabled KVM unit (Search
the net, they are out there, some cheap).
From one computer on the same network (or over the internet if the client
has a public IP) you can establish the IP session to the KVM
(keyboard/video/mouse) unit
and actually hit the delete or F key to enter the BIOS of the remote PC.
Once there, you can get full color screen shots of the BIOS screen on the
remote PC.
This is the best way if you want good clear BIOS screenshots that look as
if you hit printscreen while in windows.
Have fun and you're welcome....
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If it's a screenshot of any BIOS you need use VMWare or Virtual PC to create
a PC in a Window then you can create the screenshot using printscreen in the
usual manner
 
pickedaname said:
Hi,
If money is not a factor, let me suggest A TCP/IP enabled KVM unit
(Search the net, they are out there, some cheap).
From one computer on the same network (or over the internet if the
client has a public IP) you can establish the IP session to the KVM
(keyboard/video/mouse) unit
and actually hit the delete or F key to enter the BIOS of the remote
PC. Once there, you can get full color screen shots of the BIOS
screen on the remote PC.
This is the best way if you want good clear BIOS screenshots that
look as if you hit printscreen while in windows.
Have fun and you're welcome....
Click to expand...

You could also accomplish that with UltraVNC onj the two computers.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63887

And, it's free from sourceforge.
 
Did you try the "old fashion" way:

with a printer attached to LPT1, the PrtScn key should work; you may need
to press a FF key on the printer afterwards to make it eject the page.

Don't have an old parrallel printer lying around? check w/ a friend, any
old dot-matrix or laser should do it.

No LPT port? SOL, sorry. I'd then try the camera approach, take a pic of
the screen; not great but usable.
 
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