Gautam R. Singh wrote: > Is there any way (software/program) to change the BootUp device order > in the BIOS from the OS (Eg. Windows) itself? > > While logged on to my Win2k I want to change my BIOS settings?
Boot-order settings are proprietary, so vary from BIOS vendor to BIOS vendor (and even possibly from version to version from the same vendor). However, there is nothing special about what you want to do so long as the user running the utility (presumably supplied by your BIOS vendor _if_ such exists for your BIOS) has sufficiently high privileges. Boot order (like all BIOS configuration options) is stored in CMOS and/or a fragment of Flash ROM used for EBCD so probably requires admin/system privs to alter (at least, to alter directly). The laptop I'm writing this from has the capability to do what you ask, as do many others I've used. This is achieved through vendor-supplied utilities in all cases I've looked at. Such utilities seem much rarer (or at least, it is rare for them to be installed/supplied) on desktop boxes. If you have a "cheap white box" style system you may well find a "mainboard utilities" disk amongst the various manuals and disks you probably never took out of the box, and usually this will include tools for altering the BIOS settings (and monitoring things like temperature, fan-speed, etc depending on your board) from inside the OS. If you haven't such a disk, try searching around the websites of your mainboard and/or BIOS vendors. Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
