Greg Mayman wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> 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... 

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

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

These are what,  dos programs?  I probably have several such in the files
section here.  But that's not the issue,  anyhow.  How am I going to get
one of those to run?  If the machine loses power long enough to lose
settings,  it's not gonna boot,  and I'm not going to be able to fix it
except by hooking up a keyboard and monitor to it...

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

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

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

This MB won't even do that -- if it loses CMOS,  the default is a 1.2M
floppy drive,  so unless I want to figure out a way to make one of those
out of a 1.44M disk,  and then figure out a way to restore the settings, 
and reboot,  I'm not going to bother.

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