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managing bios from windows

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Is it possible? To change bios settings, and then restart to have them take effect? Just wondering if it's possible to play around with a machine, bios and all, using VNC from a remote location.
 
i doubt it but that is based on my personal opinion with no other basis :). i of course could be, and would be interested if there was a way if i was wrong
 
well, the main reason why I think there might be is that I remember seeing the odd motherboard here and there that offered "software overclocking" things. To the best of my knowledge, that would require modifying the bios, and these things worked out of windows. I could be wrong though.
 
Some motherboards, like the newer Abit ones have software ( I forget the link) that allows you to overclock from within Windows. I personally don't like the idea of fiddling with the BIOS. If you have a machine that is remote, set the BIOS for stability and leave it that way. I certainly wouldn't muck around in the BIOS of a machine that wasn't right in front of me.
 
Well, first of all, I could always call the place where the computer is and have someone power it off if I thought I'd messed something up :p

Second of all, this could be useful in controlling a computer that was say, not on the same floor as me, or didn't have a monitor/keyboard/mouse hooked up to it, but was hooked up to the net.
 
i believe these "on-the-fly" bios programs take effect immediately and reset when you restart your computer, but i might be wrong.
 
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