Software/Hardware solution wanted
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Hopefully this is the right place to get this type of help.

Here’s my issue. I have what can be described as a never ending amount of computers I need to go into the BIOS, change a few settings, then run a program off a USB drive. It’s a real simple task but given I have to do this to a never ending amount, it’s time consuming.

My idea for a solution would be a separate computer with a video capture card that hooks up to a KVM switch and runs a custom piece of software. That software would look at the screen and depending what was there, would issue certain keystrokes. Example: it would constantly press F10 until BIOS showed up, then it would arrow over and see if ‘secure boot’ was active. if it was, it would issue one set of commands, if not it would move to a different set. I f…

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