[optacon-l] Re: Using the Optacon to look at the PC

  • From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:30:22 -0500

Right!  Just as we're truly stuck if we need to get into safe mode to
disinfect or repair a system...


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On Behalf Of Gordon Kent
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:41 PM
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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