RE: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

  • From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:38:07 -0400

Correct. The new technology is called EFI, or rather UEFI, to be more 
appropriate.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:35 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

Actually, though I cannot remember where I read it, my understanding
is that they're beginning to manufacture desktops w/o bioses now. The
bios code had a far longer life than what was ever expected, & my
understanding is that they're working to phase it out.

On 4/18/11, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not exactly power saving, but rather power management. It's called Intel
> AMT. research the opcodes and software on the client-side
> behind AMT and Intel VPro technology.
>
> Good luck
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:24 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: accessible bios setup:thoughts?
>
> Back in 1992 I had an Acer desktop that when you held the right keys in it
> sent the video to a lite talk speech box.  It was crappy it couldn't review
> but I could do everything in bios.  Since then there was the Azus talking
> mother board that flopped because we shot ourselves in the foot.  Rather
> than being happy with crappyy access we jumped them and told them everything
> they were doing wrong.  Rather than fix it they dumped the board
>
> Now If you're looking for a possibility which is why you wrote I *GRIN*
> There is one thing that might be able to do the trick.  Intel has a power
> saving board that the bios is supposed to be controllable from the network.
> In fact my brother controls almost 2000 computers this way.  You are
> supposed to be able to put them into power saving mode remotely and change
> all bios settings remotely.  The problem I see is I am not sure the remote
> software is accessible and have no way of finding out.  I will give it a
> shot finding which mother boards has this technology but I figure you have
> more time to hunt them down than me so I am giving you what little I know
> off the top of my head.  The little is just that it's an Intel network
> management power saving feature.  Good luck.
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield,
> Tyler
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 3:55 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: accessible bios setup:thoughts?
>
> Hello all:
> I will be getting a desktop in the near future and I want to be able to
> work my way through the bios and configure everything like I want (raid,
> etc).
> Have any of you found a way that can be used for someone across the net
> to work with you? I have a friend who said he would help, and I could
> point the webcam at the screen, but that's really hard if not impossible
> to read from the glow of the screen. Are there other solutions?
> I have a male - male VGA port setup. Could I possibly somehow set it up
> to stream the video from the computer to something that I could transmit
> across the net? this sounds like a cool little project, I'm just not
> sure where to begin. I'd think Linux would be a lot easier to write this
> for.
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> Ty
>
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