In my quest to gain as much knowledge about the inner workings of my system and what makes it tick I recently visited this site http://www.unicore.com/biosmd/021801/bwz-rel.exe
and ran their BIOS wizard.This was a quick test and seems like a good way for anyone to get information on their BIOS.
I am pasting the information it provided me below.
My questions are:
1.Is it time to update my BIOS ?
2.What is DMI ?
3.My only concern to raise this question are the lines I bolded.
BIOS CAPABILITIES TEST REPORT
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Generated by: BIOS Wizard 2.10
Date: January 14, 2002
Time: 15:33
PnP Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0
PCI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 2.1
PCI IRQ Routing Table : BIOS currently supports this feature
Enhanced Disk Drive
Specification : BIOS currently supports this feature
DMI Version : BIOS supports minimum version 2.2. Latest is
version 2.3
ACPI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0
APM Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.2
Booting From CD-ROM : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports ESCD : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Updated (flashed) : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Shadowed : BIOS currently supports this feature
BIOS Chip in Socket : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports Selective Booting : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports LS-120 Booting : BIOS doesn't support this feature
Supports ZIP Booting : BIOS doesn't support this feature
Supports Network Booting : The testing of this feature is not supported by
the current DMI version
BIOS Manufacturer : Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID : 11/10/1999-i810-ITE8712-IWT-ME+C-00
BIOS Date : 11/10/99
BIOS OEM Signon : P6IWT-ME/i810L Ver Promise_3.0c 11/10/1999
BIOS ROM Size : 256K
Chipset : Intel Whitney 82810 rev 3
Super I/O Chip : Known super I/O chip is not found
and ran their BIOS wizard.This was a quick test and seems like a good way for anyone to get information on their BIOS.
I am pasting the information it provided me below.
My questions are:
1.Is it time to update my BIOS ?
2.What is DMI ?
3.My only concern to raise this question are the lines I bolded.
BIOS CAPABILITIES TEST REPORT
===============================
Generated by: BIOS Wizard 2.10
Date: January 14, 2002
Time: 15:33
PnP Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0
PCI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 2.1
PCI IRQ Routing Table : BIOS currently supports this feature
Enhanced Disk Drive
Specification : BIOS currently supports this feature
DMI Version : BIOS supports minimum version 2.2. Latest is
version 2.3
ACPI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0
APM Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.2
Booting From CD-ROM : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports ESCD : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Updated (flashed) : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Shadowed : BIOS currently supports this feature
BIOS Chip in Socket : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports Selective Booting : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports LS-120 Booting : BIOS doesn't support this feature
Supports ZIP Booting : BIOS doesn't support this feature
Supports Network Booting : The testing of this feature is not supported by
the current DMI version
BIOS Manufacturer : Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID : 11/10/1999-i810-ITE8712-IWT-ME+C-00
BIOS Date : 11/10/99
BIOS OEM Signon : P6IWT-ME/i810L Ver Promise_3.0c 11/10/1999
BIOS ROM Size : 256K
Chipset : Intel Whitney 82810 rev 3
Super I/O Chip : Known super I/O chip is not found