Capture Screen of BIOS/Booting on AMD

Question

Is it possible to capture the screen of BIOS? And of booting windows?

Answer 1

Sure, using camera as Sathya♦ suggested in comment (which won't give you good results) or on other computer using remote KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) solution. Using virtual machine like QEMU or VirtualBox is also an option (at least for Windows, you won't get your own BIOS screen that way).

Answer 2

Potential duplicate of "How can I take screenshots of the PC before it boots up?"

In short the possible solutions are:

• Virtual machine (VMWare, VirtualBox...)
• Use digital camera to take pictures of your screen
• Use screen grabber

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#Firmware_on_adapter_cards and http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?104408-BIOS-screenshot-tutorial

Nowadays, you can't easily inject (via PCI) optional ROMs unless normal x86 bios exits all its initializations and configs. It was truly possible on some older mobos, where integrated video rom was loaded prior to main bios code, and is possible with some disk controller roms as said in the article above. Then, you can grab a copy of frame buffer from the rom and dump it to some place..

You can write and inject (from disk) some kind of pre-loader which will capture Windows boot at the framebuffer.

But can recommend you buying an old HP RILOE unit (seen those on ebay for $10 - you plug it into PCI slot, it works as a LAN-available videocard console including BIOS access) or, if you can afford newer hardware - any IP-kvm would allow you to get the screens.

Answer 4

I assume this is for a home PC, but if it were for a server, many come with Remote Management Cards, like Dell's DRAC. You could remote into the DRAC card during your native Windows session, and record the DRAC card boot up with any number of screen capturing video programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_DRAC

Answer 5

well if you can buy a video capture device that is compatible via vga-dvi then yes. you may need another computer to plug the device in that's why i use a camera instead but it is possible.