What is the difference between BIOS version/date and SMBIOS

Question

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

gator6x4 · Answer

For information on SMBIOS go here.   http://www.dmtf.org/newsroom/releases/2006_12_4B   You can also obtain the latest version, 2.5 at this location.

snowshine · Answer

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

Mary G · Answer

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.

snowshine · Answer

Hi Mary G Thanking you for that. Can you help me in this please.   My SMBIOS version is 2.3. [My BIOS version is Dell Inc 2.4.2] Now, I went to the site suggested by Dell-ChrisM for the problems with wakeup issues where it is suggested that one need to have the latest SMBIOS.   So How could I know if the SMBIOS version of mine the latest?   Thank you for your thoughts on this matter.   Snow

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What is the difference between BIOS version/date and SMBIOS

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