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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
systems easier. With DMI, a network administrator or MIS engineer
can remotely access some information about a particular computer
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 information
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 components,
certain revision numbers of hardware installed, etc. are automatically
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 detected, can be
manually recorded in the DMI pool by using the Add DMI menu.
The DMI pool data is then verified or updated whenever the system
hardware or setup is altered.
4.1.1 Running the DMI Utility
To run the DMI utility, type: DMICFG.EXE.
The DMI utility must run in real mode with at least 180K of base
memory. Memory managers like HIMEM.SYS (required by
Windows) 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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