[optacon-l] Re: Using the Optacon to look at the PC
- From: "C. Pond" <cpond@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 01:30:45 -0400
Changes can be made, which I assume will take effect when the computer is
next turned on. With special exceptions, not being able to access the BIOS
is a thing of the past.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Kent
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 12:40 AM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Using the Optacon to look at the PC
But you can’t change anything when you are actually booted into windows.
Gord
On Apr 20, 2014, at 11:23 PM, C. Pond <cpond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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