Is there any way to print BIOS screens to a USB printer?

[pty]

On my old computer (with a parallel port printer), I used to be able to print the BIOS screens by using PrtScrn on the keyboard. Now with a new computer (ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard) and new printer (HP LaserJet with USB connection only), that doesn't work anymore. Is there any way to print the BIOS screens with this new setup? Thx..

 

[leedog2007]

I don't think so, i have the same mobo and cannot

 

[Wild1]

I was having a similar issue. Wanted to document my BIOS settings but couldn't get it to print out. Being impatient and not wanting to spend time troubleshooting I just grabbed my digital camera, snapped a picture of the screens I was worried about, dumped it into the memory card reader and I had my setting record in less than 10 minutes. Worked for me.

 

[daniel49]

can't help you with that one but is interesting to note that some bios info is contained in the registry , although not much.

In xp start /run/regedit
got to hkey local machine/description/system
and you will see bios version,date, and video bios date.

dan

 

[VirtualLarry]

Peter would be the guy to ask about this one, I think. I have no idea, I've never tried it. I know that modern BIOS cores have reasonably extensive USB support (at least for mouse/keyboard/disk), but I have no idea about printers. If the printer is "host-based", then there's no chance at all that would work. Many USB-connected printers are these days.

It's possible for the printer mfg to include a DOS-based USB printer driver, and a TSR program to intercept the PRINT-SCREEN keys and dump the screen to the printer, but I doubt that many would bother to write DOS programs/drivers to do that, in this day and age. Not to mention, that still wouldn't help much for printing things like the BIOS screens. So my feeling is, sorry, you're likely out of luck on this one, unless you can find an ancient parallel-port printer that works in DOS, just for the time being.