On Sunday 25 April 2021 16:06:10 E. Liddell wrote:
to find out if I have such a "weird incompatible
> > BIOS"?
>
> We need a name and version number for the BIOS, I guess. Or else
> the make and model of the motherboard.
>
> The BIOS name should show up on screen at the beginning of the
> boot sequence. Version number may be there too, or somewhere in
> the BIOS configuration screens.
>
> The motherboard's information might be in the BIOS configurator as
> well, or you might be able to find it by opening the case and checking for
> information silkscreened on the board itself.
>
> That's the best I can do. We've gone somewhat beyond my areas of
> expertise here. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure the combination of
> a 32-bit BIOS and a 64-bit processor is even possible, but it seems
> like a good idea to rule it out.
>
> E. Liddell
after reboot - the BIOS
copied from the boot sequence, and from digging through the BIOS itself
ASUS P5GC-VM
ACPI BIOS revision 2007
AMI BIOS 0407 build date 09/22/08
I can't find anything else (so far) from digging round in my system info, but
maybe I don't know where to look.
Bill
P.S. However, I did just discover this nifty little command, lshw, and here is
the output. (There's actually much more information, but it isn't pertinent
to the CPU and motherboard.)
lshw
<hostname>
description: Desktop Computer
product: System Product Name (To Be Filled By O.E.M.)
vendor: System manufacturer
version: Rev 1.xx
serial: SYS-1234567890
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=1 family=To Be Filled By
O.E.M. sku=To Be Filled By O.E.M. uuid=60770470-8DFE-D511-9F64-001D607F8E50
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: P5GC-VM
vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
physical id: 0
version: Rev x.xx
serial: MS1C79B00G03073
slot: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: 0407
date: 09/22/2008
size: 64KiB
capacity: 512KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot
bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int
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