-=> Roy J. Tellason said to Jasen Betts
 -=> about "SILICON CHIP ON LINE" on 05-15-04  12:06.....

 RJT> There's a thought.  I am not in the habit of turning that machine off
 RJT> at all, so I'm not real worried about it.  The main thing just now is
 RJT> that I don't have either a monitor or a keyboard hooked up to that box,
 RJT> so if we do lose power it's going to be a bit of a PITA to deal
 RJT> with... 

I recommend CMOSSAV, CMOSCHK and CMOSREST, that save the CMOS
settings to a disk file, check the settings against the disk
file, and restore the settings from that disk file.

Look for CMOSSV27.ZIP. I think I downloaded it from my local BBS.

There are other utilities for saving and restoring the CMOS, but
this is the best one I've found. It also is the only one that can
check the CMOS against the saved file.

You _might_  find it on Timo Salmi's University of Vaasa software
download site   http://garbo.uwasa.fi/   otherwise there are other
DOS software sites that might have it.

It would be worthwhile putting these utilities on a boot floppy
with the file of the saved config, and setting up the
AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them on boot up, so it will all be there
when the hard disk crashes.

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