CMOSSave/CMOSRest

CMOSSave CMOSRest CMOSChk restore corrupted CMOS from

backup and check that CMOS has not been tampered with.

Naive users sometimes meddle with CMOS settings. We need a

fast way to put the scores of subtle CMOS configuration

settings back the way they were.

Power surges can corrupt CMOS. We need a way for a naive

user to quickly restore all the CMOS settings.

If the battery fails, the contents will be lost. We need a

way to restore a known working CMOS configuration.

CMOSRest restores ALL of CMOS, including the proprietary

extended CMOS settings like wait states, clock speeds,

shadow RAM etc.

CMOSRest can also be used to toggle between two CMOS

configurations, for example with and without a removable

hard drive installed.

CMOSChk can detect subtle corruption to CMOS, as might be

caused by a rogue program or a virus, something that might

slow your machine or make it unreliable.

The CMOS suite will work under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows

95/98/ME or OS/2. It partly works under NT, Windows

2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7. See cmossave.manual.html details. However, these

utilities are intended to be used mainly within autoexec.bat during the

DOS phase of the boot. Further, there will be spurious CMOS

changes when you reboot between Win95 and NT.

The suite can also be used to rapidly clone the same CMOS settings in many machines.