gHacks technology news » msinfo32 http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Find out the which BIOS is installed in your PChttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/10/find-out-the-which-bios-is-installed-in-your-pc/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/10/find-out-the-which-bios-is-installed-in-your-pc/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:25:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/10/find-out-the-which-bios-is-installed-in-your-pc/ 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.

system bios

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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