BIOS program shuts down Vista PC

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I was looking for a utility to run under NT (at work) to verify that the BIOS
was not changed. I downloaded BWZ-REL (and checked it for viruses, of course)
to test it under Vista (at home) first.
When I hit the Start button to have it read the CMOS ID, it reboots the PC
immediately.
I suspect that this is not a good thing to have happen.


Thanks for any info.
 
morialta said:
I was looking for a utility to run under NT (at work) to verify that the BIOS
was not changed. I downloaded BWZ-REL (and checked it for viruses, of course)
to test it under Vista (at home) first.
When I hit the Start button to have it read the CMOS ID, it reboots the PC
immediately.
I suspect that this is not a good thing to have happen.


Thanks for any info.
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What info are you looking for, specifically? For my part, I'm not sure
why you could have possibly expected anything different, considering
that you ran an system level utility on an OS for which it wasn't
specifically designed.

Does it do any damage, or does it just reboot the PC? If the latter,
count yourself lucky, and consider it a lesson learned.


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Bruce - Thanks for the reply.

I need a utility that will store the CMOS settings and verify that they have
not changed from the original configuration. We had a problem where the CMOS
setting changed that configured something concerning a multi-processor PC
running NT, and then the AGP video card wouldn't operate properly. Why it
changed we don't know. Operator foolery? CMOS error? Anyway, we want to
prevent that from happening again. On test stations running DOS, we run a
program that reads the CMOS in AUTOEXEC.BAT and verifies it against a file.
On the new PCs, we just boot NT or XP.

Concerning Vista, I would have expected it to say that the program was
trying to access something that it wasn't allowed to do (unless it was able
to immediately load and run a service that gave it that privelege (I did run
it as administrator) ).

Yes, I was lucky that there was no damage, but it has to be tested somewhere.
If I run the DOS CMOS utility, Vista pops up a message that says .... I
forget, but it won't let it run (which I expected).

Anyway, the reason I posted this message here was that if the first utility
I pick that was designed for WinNT/2000/XP shuts down Vista immediately when
run, it probably isn't a good thing (even if the program weren't purposely
malicious).
 
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