What is the difference between BIOS version/date and SMBIOS
One thread here suggested to a Microsoft site to resolve problems with hibernation issues.[Suggested by Dell's moderator]
The M-Soft site advies to have the latest BIOS.
As suggsested I tried to varify my version.
I get the following:
BIOS version : Dell Inc 2.4.2 30/3/2007
SMBIOS 2.3
I know fron Dell's Drivers & Downloads that my BIOS is the latest version. However I am not able to undestand as to what does SMBIOS means?
Am I uptodate with BIOS or Not?
Can anybody help me understand?
Thanking you
Snow
Dimension 9200
Intel ViiV Core 2Duo E6400 Processor 2.13GHz 1066 MHz 2MB
Windows XP media Centre Edition 2005 now VISTA OS 32bit
Memory:2048 MB Dual DDR2 533 MHz [2x1024]
Dell Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse Dell Wireless Bluetooth
Video Card: 1GB nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual graphics card
Hard Drive: 640 GB [2*320GB]SATA stripe RAID 0
16x DVD +/- RW
16x IDE DVD ROM
Can sombody from Dell tell us, if it is save to update this SMBIOS from the suggested site?
OR Dell will post latest version for SMBIOS?
Can I elevate this to get Dell's responce?
Snow
Dimension 9200
Intel ViiV Core 2Duo E6400 Processor 2.13GHz 1066 MHz 2MB
Windows XP media Centre Edition 2005 now VISTA OS 32bit
Memory:2048 MB Dual DDR2 533 MHz [2x1024]
Dell Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse Dell Wireless Bluetooth
Video Card: 1GB nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual graphics card
Hard Drive: 640 GB [2*320GB]SATA stripe RAID 0
16x DVD +/- RW
16x IDE DVD ROM
You cannot "elevate" your question here. This forum is user to user. It is not advisable to get any bios updates anywhere else. Only the manufacturer should supply bios updates & you don't need any.
gator6x4
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Posted May 19th, 2007 21:00