reset bios

[rajesh23]

is there anyway to reset the bios using a program in C?

[vasanth]

I sure remember using the debug option in dos to mess and playaround with the BIOS..

[rajesh23]

debug option is ideal

but how to to it in C

[Jaguar]

My point of view
BIOS is somewhat verrrrrry specific.
You can't do that

[VirtualAce]

Not sure if this is what you mean, but you can force a reset on a computer by doing this:

asm {
   db  0EAh
   db 0000h
   db FFFFh
}

or JMP FFFF:0000


But inside of Windows this will not work and will only terminate your DOS session, but there are also ways around that.

[Azuth]

There are serveral programs around that cause the BIOS to reset by forcing a checksum error. Allowing you to remove a forgotten BIOS password etc. I guess they must write to the BIOS somewhere, but hopefully somewhere they know is not going to kill things permenantly.