how to tell the motherboard manufacturer in windows 2000

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:44:48 -0800, Connected
<> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:10:58 +1100, Franc Zabkar
><> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't know how to do the same in Win2K, but in Win9x you can use the
>>DOS debug command to dump your BIOS. The following dump shows my M571
>>motherboard's BIOS ID, "51-0421-001437-00101111-071595-M571", and the
>>version, "Release 04/21/1999S".
>>
>>================================================ ====================
>>debug
>
>I just tried from a command prompt in XP and you type debug then you
>get - and type D for a dump but it shows nothing about my mb.

I get the same kind of info for an L7S7A2 board running AMIBIOS.
Perhaps yours is an Award BIOS???

Here is a way to copy your video BIOS (vbios.bin) and motherboard BIOS
(mbios.bin) into files. Note that these files will contain only a
portion of the actual BIOS code in your motherboard's EEPROM, and a
decompressed version at that (because it is shadowed in RAM). The
motherboard BIOS is saved as two chunks which are later merged
(because I'm not a proficient user of debug, so I don't know how to
circumvent the 64KB limit). The "edit" commands allow you to view and
search these files in read-only mode. In my case, vbios.bin contains a
string which identifies the onboard graphics (SiS 5597), and mbios.bin
identifies the M571.


CD %temp%

C:\WIN98SE\TEMP>debug
-n vbios.bin
-m c800:0000 7fff 100
-r cx
CX 0000
:8000
-w
Writing 08000 bytes

-n mbiosa.bin
-m f000:0 feff 100
-r cx
CX 8000
:ff00
-w
Writing 0FF00 bytes

-n mbiosb.bin
-m f000:ff00 ffff 100
-r cx
CX FF00
:100
-w
Writing 00100 bytes
-q

C:\WIN98SE\TEMP>copy /b mbiosa.bin + mbiosb.bin mbios.bin
mbiosa.bin
mbiosb.bin
1 file(s) copied

C:\WIN98SE\TEMP>edit /r /64 vbios.bin
C:\WIN98SE\TEMP>edit /r /64 mbios.bin


- Franc Zabkar
--
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:44:48 -0800, Connected <>
wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:10:58 +1100, Franc Zabkar
><> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't know how to do the same in Win2K, but in Win9x you can use the
>>DOS debug command to dump your BIOS. The following dump shows my M571
>>motherboard's BIOS ID, "51-0421-001437-00101111-071595-M571", and the
>>version, "Release 04/21/1999S".
>>
>>================================================ ====================
>>debug
>
>I just tried from a command prompt in XP and you type debug then you
>get - and type D for a dump but it shows nothing about my mb.

But did you specify an address range? Note that Frank did a search first
in the BIOS address range and then having got a match on "AMIBIOS", he
dumped the addresses in the correct range.

--
Rgds, George Macdonald

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:30:22 +1100, Franc Zabkar
<> wrote:


>I get the same kind of info for an L7S7A2 board running AMIBIOS.
>Perhaps yours is an Award BIOS???

Yes, Award BIOS.

>Here is a way to copy your video BIOS (vbios.bin) and motherboard BIOS
>(mbios.bin) into files. Note that these files will contain only a
>portion of the actual BIOS code in your motherboard's EEPROM, and a
>decompressed version at that (because it is shadowed in RAM). The
>motherboard BIOS is saved as two chunks which are later merged
>(because I'm not a proficient user of debug, so I don't know how to
>circumvent the 64KB limit). The "edit" commands allow you to view and
>search these files in read-only mode. In my case, vbios.bin contains a
>string which identifies the onboard graphics (SiS 5597), and mbios.bin
>identifies the M571.

Thanks for all that info but I'm too lazy to do that when I can just
run PC Wizard 2004, Sisoft Sandra or Everest and get the mb bios info.
:-)

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 05:34:53 -0500, George Macdonald
<fammacd=!SPAM^> wrote:


>But did you specify an address range? Note that Frank did a search first
>in the BIOS address range and then having got a match on "AMIBIOS", he
>dumped the addresses in the correct range.

Um, no, I didn't do that. Oh well, I don't need to anyway as I have
progs that show me all that info.