A friend of mine was recently asking me if I knew how to find out which BIOS was installed in his computer. He wanted to know for two reasons. The first was that he could not remember and was not able to figure out on his own. He did want to buy a better CPU and had to know which were supported by his motherboard and BIOS.
The second reason was related. He wanted to check if a BIOS upgrade was available to see if an update to a newer version would add support for faster CPUs.
Finding out which BIOS is installed in a computer is not complicated at all. You could pay attention to the boot sequence but a far better and easier way is to use a software that ships with Windows anyway.
To find out you simply have to type ‘msinfo32′ in a command prompt. Once you know which BIOS is installed you can search for updates on the Internet. If you can remember the motherboard manufacturer and version it would be even easier of course, but if you can’t remember this is your best choice.
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Hi Martin
I can’t get this to work at the command prompt, but if I enter msinfo32 in the “Run” dialog box, it works.
Yea, it should be enterd in the éRun” dialog, not a command prompt… unless you ofcourse locate the executable, and execute it from the command line…
Step 1: cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo
Step2: msinfo32.exe
You guys are right of course. Execute msinfo32 from the run dialog box unless the path is set as a system path in Windows.