Freezing a BIOS start-up page

[SBO Dental Lab]

When the pc starts up and it displays the CPU speed and RAM size, is there a
key I can press to freeze that page so I can get a good look at it?

Thanks for your attention.

David

[Jim Macklin]

PAUSE

If you want a picture, press PrtScrn. Then after you boot,
open Paint, new, and paste the image into the Paint program.


"SBO Dental Lab" > wrote in
message ...
| When the pc starts up and it displays the CPU speed and
RAM size, is there a
| key I can press to freeze that page so I can get a good
look at it?
|
| Thanks for your attention.
|
| David
|
|
|

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
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> PAUSE
>
> If you want a picture, press PrtScrn. Then after you boot,
> open Paint, new, and paste the image into the Paint program.
>
>
Clipboard contents will not survive a reboot. In fact, the
clipboard is not present until Windows is loaded. Print Screen will
send the output directly to a DOS-compatible printer during the BIOS
display. If you do not have DOS-compatible printer, the keystroke
will be ignored.

If you have a USB keyboard, you may not be able to hit the Pause key
during the device enumeration screen. It is sometimes difficult to
hit the key for entering the BIOS on the first screen because of
slow initialization of the USB port.

--
Earl F. Parrish

[Donald Link]

Did you hit the PAUSE/BREAK key? On some machine it is just to fast.


"SBO Dental Lab" > wrote in message
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> When the pc starts up and it displays the CPU speed and RAM size, is there
a
> key I can press to freeze that page so I can get a good look at it?
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> David
>
>
>