How Do I capture the BIOS screen?

[DrZooX]

Hey guys please help, I am trying to capture the BIOS screen from another computers and laptops. I don't get a signal until the computer loads into windows how do i over come this?

 

I have a elgato HD60 capture card.  This is for a school project.

 

Thanks

[samcool55]

Well go ghetto, point a camera to the monitor and record it that way.

Will it be the cleanest recording? No.

Will it be good enough? Very likely, camera's these days have no issue recording monitors.

[mr moose]

Can't you just plug the monitor cable into the HD60 and start recording all the way from no signal?

 

EDIT: It sounds to me like the PC you are trying to capture does not output signal until after windows has loaded, Perchance this is a laptop and you are using the HDMI out?  IF so you have to tell the Laptop to use the HDMI out as the main monitor and built in as the secondary.

 

 

[SomeLinuxPerson]

33 minutes ago, DrZooX said:

Hey guys please help, I am trying to capture the BIOS screen from another computers and laptops. I don't get a signal until the computer loads into windows how do i over come this?

 

I have a elgato HD60 capture card.  This is for a school project.

 

Thanks

Laptops often dont display anything on HDMI until windows has loaded. There might be a BIOS setting to change the capture card to primary display thus displaying to it by default.

[TheKDub]

38 minutes ago, DrZooX said:

Hey guys please help, I am trying to capture the BIOS screen from another computers and laptops. I don't get a signal until the computer loads into windows how do i over come this?

 

I have a elgato HD60 capture card.  This is for a school project.

 

Thanks

You might not be able to with a laptop. Try booting it and closing the laptop to see if that'll disable the built in display and make it show the BIOS on the capture card instead.

 

If that doesn't work, you probably can't capture it on that laptop.

[rmjohnson144]

I have this same issue, but I have a desktop system.  Everything seems fine, it just won't capture the BIOS or the win logo, it only works when getting to desktop.

 

Anyone know of a fix, or a capture card for recording the BIOS.

 

Thanks for any help

[Mark Kaine]

23 hours ago, rmjohnson144 said:

I have this same issue, but I have a desktop system.  Everything seems fine, it just won't capture the BIOS or the win logo, it only works when getting to desktop.

 

Anyone know of a fix, or a capture card for recording the BIOS.

 

Thanks for any help

evga capture card is supposed to do that.