Category : System Diagnostics for your computer
Archive   : CMOS14.ZIP
Filename : CMOS.USE

 
Output of file : CMOS.USE contained in archive : CMOS14.ZIP
CMOSSave CMOSRest CMOSChk 1.4 restore damaged CMOS from backup
and check that CMOS has not been tampered with.

Naive users sometimes meddle with CMOS settings. We need a fast
way to put the scores of subtle CMOS configuration settings back
the way they were.

Power surges can corrupt CMOS. We need a way for a naive user
to quickly restore all the CMOS settings.

If the battery fails, the contents will be lost. We need a way
to restore a known working CMOS configuration.

CMOSRest restores ALL of CMOS, including the proprietary
extended COMS settings like wait states, clock speeds, shadow
RAM etc.

Version 1.2 works on AMI 64-byte SX CMOSes as well as the
standard 128-byte ones. Version 1.3 also restores CMOSes on
machines that don't properly clear the status bytes on boot up.
Version 1.4 works on BIOSes that don't always set the CMOS
register C status flags consistently.

May be freely used and copied for any purpose except military.
MASM/OPTASM Source available to shareware registrants.

By Roedy Green of Canadian Mind Products.


  3 Responses to “Category : System Diagnostics for your computer
Archive   : CMOS14.ZIP
Filename : CMOS.USE

  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

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