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- From: vrv@cimage.com (Victor Volkman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: cmos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.134058.11272@cimage.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 13:40:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cimage.1992Nov18.134058.11272
- Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
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- >CMOS seems like it is a mysterious undocumented piece of my computer. I even
- >went to the book store and couldn't find one book about CMOS. If there is
- >any documentation about CMOS it seems to only cover the first menu option
- >"STANDARD CMOS SETTINGS"
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- Actually, it is not too mysterious... If you know where to look. You
- will find the answers in the set of books written by Phoenix (yes,
- the makers of the BIOS clone). These books are available at better
- bookstores (such as Border's). I don't have it in front of me,
- but the title is something like "BIOS for Personal Computers". The
- book on "ABIOS" focuses on the PS/2 (MCA) BIOS while the other book is
- about AT-bus BIOS.
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- However, if you want information about more exotic chipset-specific
- registers, as I think you do (Western Digital, etc) you must look
- to the manufacturer.
-