there is a bit more than just the bios.
there is the (CMOS) real time clock!

this battery/accu/conductor driven unit has two main duties:

- storing, updating and checking clock and alarm times.
- storing BIOS configuration data

you can read that unit via assembly mnemonic in/out.
documentation is again in RBIL and other sources.
its an adress/data paired mail slot access system.

there is a small problem that there is a minimal set
of common values inside a smaller range (256 addresses?)
and an undefined larger range that is vendor specific
that might be 256 values or much more with only
a BIOS vendor and BIOS version specific interpretation.

you might save all those setups as well.

regards, Alex.

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