Re: [oc] Writing a program for a BIOS or EEPROM

[Richard Herveille <richard@asics.ws>]

During a (power-on) reset, the PC BIOS scans for secondary BIOSes. These are 
commonly found on VGA and network cards. You can use the same mechanism to 
boot a program.

Richard

> Hello I am working on a project to build a "Life Style" PC. I need to have
> some way of writing an application either to the BIOS or some other
> eeprom that will load straight away as soon as the machine is turned on
> instead of waiting for an os to boot up. Does any one have any ideas
> what so ever as to how this would be possible. I really hope so because
> this is very exciting project but I am just held back by my lack of
> programing knowledge and eeproms etc.
>
> Cheers
> Tom

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