How do I save AND document CMOS setting?

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I have an ASUS motherboard based PC which I've overclocked and now
want to save my CMOS custom settings. Please help. Thank you.
 
Bofhluser said:
I have an ASUS motherboard based PC which I've overclocked and now
want to save my CMOS custom settings. Please help. Thank you.
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I would use a voice recorder.
 
Bofhluser said:
I have an ASUS motherboard based PC which I've overclocked and now
want to save my CMOS custom settings. Please help. Thank you.
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I would use a digital camera, to record each BIOS screen. Save
the pictures, print them off and store the pictures in a safe
place. Then you'll know exactly what you used, the next time
the CMOS battery needs to be replaced.

There used to be a particular aflash download from Asus, that
included aflash.exe, clrcmos.exe , and cmos.exe. They ran in
pure DOS mode (boot MSDOS with a floppy).

http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/info/bios/index.htm

"What do CLRCMOS.EXE and CMOS.EXE do? Where can I get them ?

CMOS.EXE saves the BIOS setup settings to a file. This is
necessary since in newer AWARD BIOSes you can't use "print screen"
to print out your settings.

Usage is: " CMOS /L filename " for example " CMOS /L settings.txt "
"

While a number of the byte locations in the CMOS have standardized
meanings, not all of them do. Even when you update the BIOS
on a motherboard, from one release to the next, there is no
guarantee the CMOS settings do the same thing. This is why some
motherboards with "profile save" capability, cannot restore
a profile to a new BIOS release - because the data definition
may be different. Profile saving works best, if the same BIOS
version is used all the time.

So any attempt to save CMOS settings that way, and restore them
later, is asking for trouble. It is better to record your
settings as best you can, so they're available later to use
as a reference.

HTH,
Paul
 
I have an ASUS motherboard based PC which I've overclocked and now
want to save my CMOS custom settings. Please help. Thank you.
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I think the BIOS have some functions that can automatically configure
the settings by default or auto detected. After that you can make some
small modifications yourselft to get it better. It should usually
work. Setting the BIOS should be easy for the native English users, I
think.
 
Bofhluser said:
I have an ASUS motherboard based PC which I've overclocked and now
want to save my CMOS custom settings. Please help. Thank you.
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Check in the Tools section of your BIOS set-up screens. My ASUS
motherboard (P6T SE) has utilities built in to save the custom settings.
Their name for the utilities is ASUS O.C. Profile. According to the
documentation you can save/load O.C. profiles to the BIOS flash. Also
according to the manual it also supports single partition devices that
are formatted in FAT32 or FAT16.

Disclaimer: I have never used these utilities so I don't know how well
they work.

Charlie
 
I was able to use the print screen key. As I recall you need to
print the last page two or three extra times to push the last page
out. This is with an LPT printer.

Also, you can take pictures of the screens with a digital camera and
then print the images when you come back up.
 
Dave said:
There use to be a program called cmossave that would do that. -Dave
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Here is a copy of a post from todays alt.comp.freeware newsgroup.
It was posted by Art under the subject of:

CMOS save and restore

Oldy but goody:
http://mindprod.com/products.html

If your PC has a floppy, copy the .com files to a DOS boot
diskette. Save CMOS to that boot diskette, and if necessary
later on, restore CMOS from the boot diskette.

I was reminded of this the other day when one of our
machines here "went flakey" due to a weak CMOS
battery.
 
CMOS save and restore
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If your PC has a floppy
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No, but with an iPhone (or similar) you can take pictures and then
use the big touchscreen to pan and zoom.

Useful might be a program that lets you view and adjust BIOS
settings from within Windows, with a restart.
 
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