Other BIOS Related Sites

Here is a short list of useful links to BIOS related pages (any suggestions about new sites are welcome):

• American Megatrends (AMI) home page.
• Award BIOS home page.
• Chiplist (LOTS of information about microprocessors), also on this CD.
• Electrocution (the best BIOS manual available).
• IBM SurePath BIOS home page.
• Intel Corporation Web site
• Mr BIOS home page.
• PC Webopaedia
• Phoenix BIOS home page.
• Scott Wainner's computer hardware info.
• Thomas Pabst's computer hardware info.
• The overclocking FAQ.
• The EIDE FAQ (also on this CD).

Other types of information available on the Internet:

• The ibm.pc.hardware. Frequently Asked Questions at rtfm.mit.edu (FTP); directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/csiph-faq; filenames: part1 to part5. It contains a wealth of information about computer hardware.
• The comp.answers newsgroup contains a lot of FAQs related to numerous types of hardware and software.
• The comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips newsgroup contains an ongoing discussion about the BIOS, microprocessors and motherboards.
• There is also a shareware named AMISETUP (written by Robert Muchsel) that enables BIOS settings and provides an on-line reference (for registered versions). It can even let you access some settings that could not be accessed otherwise. You can find it at SIMTEL mirror sites such as ftp.wustl.edu or oak.oakland.edu in the /systems/ibmpc/msdos/sysutil directory. The file name is AMISE270.ZIP.