[optacon-l] Re: Using the Optacon to look at the PC
- From: "C. Pond" <cpond@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:23:29 -0400
In Windows, one can use windows-based tools and an editor to read and edit
the BIOS.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Kent
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:11 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Using the Optacon to look at the PC
Now if we could only read the system bios, they used to be very easy but
then they started making them look like windows with all different colors
and all. FOr gosh sakes, it’s onlhy supposed to be a utility for serious
users who need to get inside the system to change basic options, not to play
a video game.
Gord
On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My PC has been acting up, again. One of the annoying things it does is
> take
> an age to start talking. I hooked up the monitor and looked at it with
> the
> good old Optacon. At least then I could tell something about what was
> happening.
> I also tried using it to look at the graphics on a pretty inaccessible
> anti-malware program. I saw the graphics, but they still didn't make
> sense
> to me. What's a square with squiggles in the corner supposed to
> represent!
> But it was good to have a clue about what was going on.
> Tracy
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