On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +0000, George R wrote: > On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change > >individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between > >BIOS manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic > >settings are (like hard drive types) but none of the settings you spoke > >of are. > > Is this just Win95 or do other OS's mess with the CMOS? In 10+ years I've > only experianced this with Win95.
Well, Windows 95 has only been out for two and a half so that could be difficult! :-) But in nearly 10 years I've never seen anything do it at all. If certain junk gets written to the appropriate IO ports the CMOS will get trashed. I can't think of a reason why Windows 95 in particular would cause this more than other systems, but there might be a reason and it's not necessarily a Microsoft plot either. > Once again the answer to a weird Win95 question comes from a Linux user. > Am I seeing a trend? I don't understand what you mean. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
