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V. DESKTOP MANAGEMENT
Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
Introducing the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility
This motherboard supports DMI within the BIOS level and provides a DMI Con-
figuration Utility to maintain the Management Information Format Database (MIFD).
DMI is able to autodetect and record information pertinent to a computer's system,
such as the CPU type, CPU speed, and internal/external frequencies, and memory
size. The onboard BIOS will detect as many system information as possible and
store the collected information in a 4K block in the baseboard's Flash EPROM and
allows the DMI to retrieve data from this database. Unlike other BIOS software, the
BIOS on the baseboard uses the same technology implemented for Plug and Play to
allow dynamic real-time updating of DMI information versus creating a new BIOS
image file and requiring the user to update the whole BIOS. This DMI Configura-
tion Utility also allows the system integrator or end user to add additional informa-
tion into the MIFD, such as serial numbers, housing configurations, and vendor
information. Information not detected by the baseboard BIOS has to be manually
entered through the DMI Configuration Utility and updated into the MIFD. This
DMI Configuration Utility provides the same reliability as PnP updating and will
prevent the refreshing failures associated with updating the entire BIOS.
System Requirements
The DMI Configuration Utility (DMICFG.EXE) must be used in real mode for the
program to run; the base memory must be at least 180K. Memory managers like
HIMEM.SYS (required by Windows) must not be installed. You can either start
your computer from a system disk without your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
files, comment out HIMEM.SYS in CONFIG.SYS by typing "REM" before the
line, or press <F5> when the startup routines start to skip your AUTOEXEC.BAT
and CONFIG.SYS files.
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