On 5/31/19, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: > Bios never did talk and what sighted help my friend was able to get > failed to do bios modifications correctly. Windows users with low > levels of technical experience and this one had seen a bios for the > first time she tried to help us. My friend lives in rural Georgia which > is lacking local neighborhood linux user's groups. For that matter > upper bucks county in Pennsylvania is in no better shape.
I hear what you're saying about BIOS not speaking and also about how there are still pockets of non-tech savvy folks in parts of the United States. I wondered about BIOS not speaking so I was actually hoping for the sighted help angle, if nothing else. I wonder if maybe there's a "newbie friendly" webpage that walks through each BIOS step for your friend's specific computer model. If your friend ever finds one and is able to actually change it, they might want to make a few copies to lay around in case they ever change their mind, grin. There are little quirks to sometimes hitting Enter to do yada-yada. Other times, it's maneuvering via arrow keys. It would be nice if there was an online how-to that presented a step-by-step that showed what was needed at each point for each "tab" or "page" that many or most BIOS have these days. It's... sad that the very long existing BIOS remains inaccessible to the point that a User has to resort to taking a computer apart to accomplish the same thing in the end... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *