On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 at 16:00, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:

> On 8/8/20 11:34 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 08/08/2020 11:43 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> >>
> >> Most systems use a "coin" battery to maintain BIOS settings while
> powered
> >> down.  Unexpected changes after power has been off usually indicate
> >> a failed battery; they are generally easy to replace.
> >
> > I don't know if it's still true, but PrintScreen used to work when you
> > were in CMOS, or the BIOS setup screen.  (Probably not; useful things
> > like this tend to go away as people forget what they're for.)  The point
>
> I suspect that hasn't worked since parallel port dot matrix printers
> went away.  There's no way for the BIOS to be able to print to a USB or
> network printer and who has a parallel port any more?
>

Some recent BIOS's support printScreen to USB:

https://www.unbxtech.com/2018/04/howto-take-screenshot-motherboard-bios.html

-- 
George N. White III
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