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Supported Software

4.1 Desktop Management Interface (DMI)

The system board comes with a DMI built into the BIOS. DMI,

along with the appropriately networked software, is designed to

make inventory, maintenance and troubleshooting of computer sys-

tems easier. With DMI, a network administrator or MIS engineer

can remotely access some information about a particular compu-

ter system without physically going to it. Quite often a service call

may be unnecessary as the problem can be solved remotely.

The DMI utility in the BIOS automatically records various informa-

tion about your system configuration. Information about the type

and speed of CPU, type and amount of memory for each memory

slot, BIOS revision level, types of add-in PCI boards and compo-

nents, certain revision numbers of hardware installed, etc. are au-

tomatically detected and stored in the DMI pool, which is a part

of the system board's Plug and Play BIOS. Additional information,

such as ISA based peripherals, which may not be automatically de-

tected, can be manually recorded in the DMI pool by using the Add

DMI menu. The DMI pool data is then verified or updated when-

ever the system hardware or setup is altered.

4.1.1 Running the DMI Utility

To run the DMI utility, type: DMICFG.EXE. You can download this

utility from ftp.dfiusa.com - /utilities/DMI directory.

The DMI utility must run in real mode with at least 180K of base

memory. Memory managers like HIMEM.SYS (required by Win-

dows) must not be installed. You may do this by using one of the

3 methods listed below.

1. Boot up from a system diskette without the AUTOEXEC.BAT

and CONFIG.SYS files,

2. “REM” HIMEM.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS, or

3. Press <F5> during bootup to bypass your AUTOEXEC.BAT and

CONFIG.SYS files.

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