Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: reading/writing CMOS beyond 256 bytes? | Date | Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:07:04 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Unfortunately, it seems that some settings are not in the 128 (or 256) > bytes accessible this way, so they must be stored elsewhere.
Large numbers of BIOS settings are in the NVRAM ESCD area in modern systems (EISA config, ISAPNP config, etc)
> Does anyone know where I should look for the remaining parts of CMOS > (short of having to sign some NDA with Intel?)?
The PnPBIOS and ESCD specs are publically available if a little impenetrable
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