On 7/29/2010 10:47 PM, Tom Lake wrote:

So, should I bother to write down everything in Setup? I should think
that a
PC should be able to do this itself!

Joe

There's no need to write anything down.

Switch on your printer.

Reboot.

Press the [F2] key during reboot to bring up page 1 the BIOS screen

Press the [Print Screen] key.

The machine will eventually print out page 1 of the BIOS settings


It doesn't work on a Studio XPS 9000 with no parallel port.
Are you using a parallel printer or a USB printer?

Tom Lake

Not only does the printer have to be a parallel printer, it has to be
able to properly handle text with carriage return-line feed. So a
parallel port PostScript printer would be unable to print the
PrintScreen data.

Furthermore, the BIOS setup screen of nearly all recent Dell computers
is not organized as Page 1, Page 2, etc. The Dell BIOS "look-and-feel"
is entirely different, except for some of the cheap Dells with an
obvious Phoenix or Award BIOS... Ben Myers