screen shots (off topic)

[Chris Kloiber]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:34 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:25, dalen wrote:
> > Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > > Hello friends,
> > > 
> > > Does any one know how to get screenshots of your bios?
> > > 
> > Lots of interesting replies.  I haven't tried this myself, but you might 
> > try and connect another computer to the printer port with a crossover 
> > cable and set it to emulate a printer.  Then Press printscreen on the 
> > first computer during the boot process.
> 
> Interesting idea, what would a printer crossover cable consist of?  Is
> there a utility that can receive the data via a crossover cable?

Maybe an "antique" laplink parallel cable would do?

> One other thought.  Use the Print Screen key to a real printer and scan
> in the results.

There you go.

-- 
Chris Kloiber