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Supported Software
Chapter 4 - 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
memor y. 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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