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ASTRA - What's New Version 4.21 (June 23, 2004) -------------------------------- - Added macros support in batch mode ($HOSTNAME$, $MACADDR$, $DATE$) - Added detection of SCSI devices temperature - Added reading of SPD information on Intel 6300ESB hub - Added detection of Intel Mobile Pentium 4 (Prescott) and Intel Celeron D processors - Added Insyde BIOS, SystemSoft BIOS for KAPOK, Phoenix BIOS for ALR support - Fixed detection of mobile AMD Athlon/Duron clock multiplier - Fixed L1 cache size detection of Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) processor - Fixed detection of new Phoenix-Award BIOS - Added 8 vendors of PCI devices and 108 models - Added 4 monitor vendors and 172 new models - Added 12 PnP devices - Added 5 vendors of motherboards with Award BIOS Version 4.20 (February 28, 2004) -------------------------------- - Added SCSI devices detection (HDD, CD drives, scanners, tape drives) and their features (device name, type, size, SCSI serial number, buffer size, HDD rotation speed and others) - Added reading of SPD information on Intel ICH6 hub and AMD 8111 chipset - Added SystemSoft BIOS for MiTAC support - Fixed IRQ detection of PCI devices - Fixed size detection of Rambus memory modules - Added 4 vendors of PCI devices and 51 models - Added 1 monitor vendor and 7 new models - Added 3 PnP devices - Added 1 vendor of motherboards with AMI BIOS Version 4.14 (January 11, 2004) --------------------------------- - Added reading of SPD information on VIA VT8237, Reliance CSB6 south bridges and nVidia nForce3 chipset - Added detection of Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, Intel Pentium M (Dothan), Intel Celeron M, AMD Athlon 64 FX, AMD Mobile Athlon 64, AMD Mobile Duron (Applebred), Transmeta Efficeon TM8x00 and National Semiconductor Geode GX2 processors - Added detection of clock multiplier of IDT WinChip2, IDT WinChip3 and VIA Cyrix III (Joshua) processors - Added Phoenix BIOS for Acer and Phoenix BIOS for Micron support - The number of determined memory modules is increased up to 8 - Fixed detection of Intel Pentium M clock multiplier - Fixed detection of AMD Opteron/Athlon 64 cache - Added 211 PCI devices - Added 4 monitor vendors and 249 new models - Added 2 PnP devices - Added 28 vendors of SPD memory modules - Added 1 vendor of motherboards with AMI BIOS - Documentation is translated into Portuguese Version 4.13 (September 21, 2003) --------------------------------- - Added reading of SPD information on ALI 1533, 1543 and 1535 south bridges - Added detection of AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, AMD Athlon XP (Thorton) and AMD Duron (Applebred) processors - Added detection of clock multiplier of AMD Opteron, Athlon 64 and VIA Antaur processors - Added detection of BrandId identifier of AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 processors - Added detection of new AMD processors features: Software Thermal Control, Thermal Monitoring, Thermal Trip, Voltage ID Control, Frequency ID Control, Temperature Sensor and No-execute Page Protection - Added Zenith BIOS, Phoenix BIOS for Texas Microsystems, Phoenix BIOS for Clevo and Phoenix BIOS for Tatung support - Fixed size detection for big (larger than 132GB) hard disks - Fixed detection of IDE ATAPI devices - Now Windows module of program uses VXD driver - Added 4 vendors of PCI devices and 150 models - Added 3 monitor vendors and 88 new models - Added 5 PnP devices - Added 23 vendors of SPD memory modules Version 4.12 (April 21, 2003) ----------------------------- - Added reading of SPD information on nVidia nForce, nForce2 chipsets, Intel ICH5/ICH5R hub, AMD 755, 756, 766, 768 south bridges and Intel 440MX chipset - Added detection of Intel Pentium M, Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott), SiS 55x processors - Added detection of new Intel processors features: Streaming SIMD Extension - 3 (SSE-3), Monitor/MWAIT, CPL-Qualified Debug Stor, Termal Monitor 2, Enhanced SpeedStep Technology - Fixed reading of SPD on some Asustek motherboards model - Fixed detection of some HDD model - Bug of search in a database of devices is fixed - Added 1 vendor of PCI devices and 94 models - Added 17 new monitor models - Added 1 vendor of motherboards with AMI BIOS Version 4.11 (February 12, 2003) -------------------------------- - Added detection of network card MAC address - Added detection of logical processors count of Hyper-Threading technology - Added detection of AMD Athlon XP (Barton), VIA C3 (Nehemiah), National Semiconductor Geode GX1 processors - Added detection of CD rotation control method - Added support of ATA/ATAPI-7 standard, including detection of Media Serial Number, Streaming Feature, General Purpose Logging, World Wide Name and others - Added support of DMI/SMBIOS 2.3.4 standard - Added support of PCI 2.3 standard - Fixed program hang-up during detection of some Samsung CD-ROM - Fixed program hang-up during ISA/PnP or LPT/PnP detection on some configuration - Fixed running in case of setting attribute 'Read Only' on a file astra.dat - Fixed detection of extended memory size under MS DOS 8.0 - Fixed enabling SMBus controller on some motherboards - Fixed detection of Intel Pentium 4 (E0 stepping) processor - Fixed detection of processors without CPUID support (old 486 processors and lower) - Fixed false detection of multiprocessor systems - Fixed detection of mouse driver version - Added new keys of the command line /nLPT, /nDMI and /nSB - disabling LPT/PnP, DMI/SMBIOS and Sound Card tests - Added 2 vendors of PCI devices and 102 models - Added 4 monitor vendors and 94 new models - Added 2 vendors of PnP devices and 11 models - Added 8 vendors of motherboards with Award BIOS - Added 78 vendors of SPD memory modules Version 4.10 (December 08, 2002) -------------------------------- - Added support of DMI/SMBIOS standard, including detection of system name, motherboard model, BIOS, CPU, cache, memory subsystem parameters, motherboard slots and ports information - Added detection of Intel Celeron (Northwood) and Intel Xeon MP (Gallatin) processors - Added multiprocessor support - Added AGP 8x support - Added detection of new Intel processors feature: Context ID - Added Phoenix BIOS for Tyan support - Added reading of SPD information on south bridge Reliance CSB5 - Added detects network computer name from DOS - Fixed program hang-up (during IDE2 detection) in a command line mode on some configuration - Fixed wrong video memory size detection on GeForce2/3/4 videocards - Added 349 vendors of PCI devices and 172 models - Added 12 monitor vendors and 168 new models - Added 1 vendor of PnP devices and 19 models Version 4.03 (August 08, 2002) ------------------------------ - Added detection of Platform ID (socket and package processor type), so that now there can be detected Intel Pentium II Xeon 512kB, Intel Pentium III Xeon 512kB (Tanner), Intel Pentium II Mobile (Deshutes) and Intel Pentium III Mobile processors - Added detection of Intel Celeron (Willamette), Intel Celeron Mobile (Northwood), AMD Athlon XP/MP/4 (Thoroughbred), VIA C3 (Ezra-T) processors - Added detection of processor original (not-overclocked) frequency based on Intel Pentium 4 core - Added reading of SPD information on Intel ICH4 hub - Added detection of DDR SDRAM PC2700/PC3200 memory modules - Added SystemSoft BIOS for HP and Phoenix BIOS for Supermicro support - Fixed reading of SPD on some motherboards with Phoenix and AMI BIOS - Fixed reading of SPD on south bridge VIA VT8233 - Fixed detection of DRDRAM memory modules size - Fixed detection of SDRAM PC66 memory modules - Fixed detection of Intel Pentium III (Tualatin) processor - Fixed detection of newest AMD Athlon XP clock multiplier - Previous program release don't run on Intel Pentium Pro processors - fixed - Increased speed of database search - Added 17 vendors of PCI devices and 201 models - Added 4 monitor vendors and 187 new models - Added 2 vendors of PnP devices and 50 models - Added 1 vendor of motherboards with Award BIOS Version 4.02 (March 23, 2002) ----------------------------- - Added detection of processor serial number - Added detection of Intel Xeon MP, Intel Xeon (Prestonia), Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood), Intel Pentium 4-M, Intel Pentium III-S, Intel Celeron Mobile (Tualatin), AMD Athlon XP, AMD Athlon (Palomino), AMD Duron (Palomino), AMD Duron Mobile (Palomino), AMD Duron Mobile (Spitfire) processors - Added detection of clock multiplier of AMD Athlon (Palomino), AMD Duron (Morgan), VIA Cyrix III (Samuel) and VIA C3 processors - Added detection of new processors features: Pending Break Event and AMD Multiprocessing Capable - Added Award BIOS for Nippon, Phoenix BIOS for IPC, Phoenix for LaserMaster, Phoenix for VMware (Emulation), SystemSoft BIOS for DEC, Chips & Technologies BIOS for Samsung, Philips BIOS and ALPS BIOS for Nokia support - Fixed detection of Intel Celeron (Tualatin) processor - Fixed detection of Intel Pentium 4 clock multiplier - Fixed detection of AMI BIOS for Intel - Fixed an error of VIA C3 processors if detecting L2 cache size and parameters - Fixed problems of mouse cursor displaying on nVidia videoadapters - Added 2 vendors of PCI devices and 343 models - Added 5 monitor vendors and 47 new models - Added 34 vendors of PnP devices and 773 models - Added 32 vendors of SPD memory modules Version 4.01 (December 05, 2001) -------------------------------- - Added detection of LPT/PnP devices (printers, scanners) - Added detection of Intel Celeron (Tualatin) processor - Added detection of new processors feature - Hyper-Threading Technology - Added reading of SPD information on south bridges VIA VT8233C and VT8235 - Added Phoenix BIOS for SANYO and Phoenix for NEC support - Added new key of the command line /nSPD - disabling SPD test - The program didn't run on some configurations under Windows (message Don't run 'astra.prg') - fixed - Added 114 vendors of PCI devices and 113 models to the program's database - Added detection of 11 monitor models - Added detection of 7 PnP devices Version 4.00 (September 24, 2001) --------------------------------- - Added SPD memory module detection (size, type, vendor, speed parameters, manufacturing date and others) - Added detection of ISA/PnP devices and used resources - Added detection of CD-drives' read/write speeds and extended features - Added detection of Intel Xeon, Intel Pentium III (Tualatin), Intel Pentium III-M, Intel i376, AMD Athlon 4, AMD Athlon MP, AMD Duron (Morgan), AMD Duron Mobile and VIA C3 processors - Added detection of Intel i387SL co-processor - Added detection of original (not-overclocked) frequency of Intel Pentium Pro and higher processors - Added new Pentium III-M and Xeon BrandID values - Added detection of AMD SSE features - Added SystemSoft BIOS support, SystemSoft BIOS for CTX support, TVS BIOS support, SurePath BIOS for Matsushita support, Award BIOS for Acer support, Phoenix BIOS for ZEOS support, Phoenix for Matsushita support, Phoenix for Tulip support, Phoenix for Toshiba support, Phoenix for Gateway support and Phoenix for Asustek support - Added detection of EGA/VGA video adapters and their video memory size - Added identification of the Windows builds - Added detection of resources used by LPT and COM ports - Added monitor type detection (color/monochrome) and input signal type (analogue/digital) - Added Total Memory to the System Summary section - Added detection of the Windows directory - Added context help in English and Russian - Added the window for saving a report where you can name your report and write any comments - Added saving of a brief report (including saving in command line mode - /RS key) - Added saving a RJS report in the program's interactive mode - New version of the library 'x86 CPU/FPU Detection Library'. TMi0SDGL Revision 2 Version 2.06. Copyright(c) 1996-98 by B-coolWare is used for detecting processors without CPUID support and frequency of 486 processors and lower - Fixed bug when program was not responding on computers with EGA/VGA video adapters - Added 2 vendors of motherboards with Award BIOS and 6 vendors of motherboards with AMI BIOS - Added 3 vendors and 183 of PCI devices to the program's database - Added detection of 15 monitor vendors and 1029 new models - The program has become DEMO - The program is renamed to ASTRA - Advanced Sysinfo Tool and Reporting Assistant Version 3.41 (April 9, 2001) ---------------------------- - Added detection of system PnP nodes and used resources - Added detection of clock multiplier and external bus frequency of AMD K6-2 processors and higher, Duron, Athlon, Intel Pentium 4 - Added support of ATA/ATAPI-6 standard, including detection of Automatic Acoustic Management support, its current and recommended value, S.M.A.R.T. Self-test, S.M.A.R.T. Error Logging, 48-bit Address and others - For some monitors added detection of internal monitor parameters: vendor name, model, serial number and horizontal and vertical frequency rates - Detects Toshiba BIOS, IBM SurePath BIOS, Microid Research BIOS, Phoenix NoteBIOS, Phoenix BIOS for HP, Phoenix for Fujitsu Siemens, Phoenix for Siemens Nixdorf, Phoenix for TI, Phoenix for Twinhead, Phoenix for Fujitsu and Phoenix for Sharp - Detects Asustek motherboards - The program's data file is zipped - Optimized ATAPI device detection - Optimized monitor detection (no more program shut downs under Windows) - In the Summary section added information on ATAPI devices, different from CD-ROM, and names of network cards models - In the Video section added information whether video card supports AGP bus or not, and video card speed - Fixed HDD detection on external UDMA/RAID controllers under Windows - Fixed program shut downs in a command line mode on some AMD processors - Optimized detection of Intel processors with CPUID 0681 clock multiplier - Fixed false detection of PCI bus on some old Brand Name computers - Added 4 new command line keys: /RJ - creating a JoyStock format report /M - saving DDC dump /nVESA - disabling VESA test /nPNP - disabling PnP test - Added 2 vendors of motherboard with Award BIOS - Added 3 vendors of PCI devices and 119 models - Added 11 monitor vendors and 64 new models Version 3.40 (January 28, 2001) ------------------------------- - Due to the use of the external Win32 module there are no restrictions if the program is started in a DOS window under Windows 9x/Me. Now the program: - Detects IDE devices in a DOS window under Windows - Detects processor clock multiplier under Windows - Fixed program's shut down while detecting processor frequency rate under some Windows versions - Fixed memory size detection under Windows Me - Detects network computer name - Added detection of AMD Sledgehammer and Transmeta Crusoe processors - Detects Compaq BIOS, IBM BIOS, Phoenix for Dell, Phoenix for IBM and Phoenix BIOS for Intel - Detects ATA/ATAPI devices installed on external UDMA/RAID controllers - Optimized disk detection under BIOS - Fixed running on Cyrix 6x86 processors - Optimized detection of Centaur processors cache - In the Summary section displays information on all HDD and CD-ROM (earlier the program could detect only master HDD) - Program won't work in a DOS window under OS/2 - Added new key '/P' of the command line - saving results of the CPUID instruction performance to a file - Default file report name is your network computer name - Program will ask you to send me your file report if it is started on computers with a configuration that can be interesting for me - Added 1 vendor of motherboards with Award and AMI BIOS - Added 1 vendor and 67 PCI devices - Added 2 monitor vendors and 87 new models Version 3.31 (November 8, 2000) ------------------------------- - Detects ATA/ATAPI devices installed on external UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 controllers, even under Windows - Added detection of additional information on PCI devices (used memory areas, IRQ, subsystem name, etc.) - For AGP devices - added detection of AGP bus supported version and its speed - Detects big (over 8.5) processor clock multiplier - Detects full video memory size of NVidia video cards - Optimized diagnostics of disk errors while creating a file report - Optimized processor frequency detection, so that there is no need in the external module clock.prg - Optimized AMI BIOS detection - Optimized VESA video modes detection - Fixed bug of some BIOS while detecting parameters of drives over 8 GB - Fixed bug on AMD processors when it was impossible to detect processor cache parameters and extended features - Fixed detection of UDMA modes and ATAPI devices features - Added 22 monitor vendors and 867 new models - Part of the documentation is translated into English Version 3.30 (August 31, 2000) ------------------------------ - Detects vendors of motherboards with AWARD and AMI BIOS (323 vendors) - Detects processors Intel: Pentium 4 Pentium II Mobile Pentium II OverDrive for Pentium Pro Celeron Mobile Pentium Mobile i486DX4/DX4WB OverDrive for 486DX i486DX2WB OverDrive for 486DX AMD: Duron K6-III+ K6-2+ Cyrix: VIA Cyrix III Centaur/IDT: WinChip 4 NexGen: Nx686 - Detects clock multiplier and external bus frequency of Intel Pentium Pro processors and higher - Detects internal processor name, its type and kernel version - Added L3 cache support of Pentium 4 processor - Added detection of new Pentium 4 feature - Automatic Clock Control and of AMD processors - x86-64 Long Mode - Detects the biggest function number supported by CPUID command - Detects Phoenix, Acer BIOS and AMI BIOS for Intel Corporation - For AWARD BIOS - detects chipset and type of system bus, for AMI - detects BIOS size - Supports ATA/ATAPI-5 standard, including 8 GB HDD controller level and higher, detects UDMA modes of CD-ROM drives, detects Single Word DMA mode, number of sectors per interrupt, bytes of ECC correction, Security Erase Time, detects new features of ATA/ATAPI-5 devices, active DMA/UDMA modes - Identifies Windows 9x version - When starting, program detects Windows NT/2000 and closes the application displaying a message - Added new key '/B' of the command line - saving dump of system and video BIOS - Default extension when creating a file report from the command line is '.rpt' - Added full path name of the report file - Added progress bar of the detection process - Increased database search speed (using totally new algorithm) - Increased speed of saving a file report - Added 23 vendors of PCI devices and 503 devices - Added 12 monitor vendors and 954 models - Fixed bug of detecting cache and internal name of Cyrix processors - Fixed minor bug when detecting processor features - Fixed bug of AMD Duron (stepping A0) processors when detecting L2 cache size - Optimized AWARD BIOS detection - Fixed detection of non-existed PCI devices - Fixed minor bug if drives are no installed - Deleted 0h symbol from BIOS copyright lines - in some cases this led to incorrect program operation - Fixed bug when detecting additional S3 video modes - In 3 months program will be asking you to update the current version Version 3.22 (March 30, 2000) ----------------------------- - Added L2 cache size and parameters of AMD Athlon and K6-III processors - Added L1 cache size and parameters of Cyrix 6x86MX processors and higher, and also of Centaur processors - On numerous requests added saving a file report from the command line - Added detection of int13h extension version - When starting, program detects presence and version of OS/2 and displays a message - The 64 MB barrier while detecting memory size is overcome - Detects HDD size over 8GB - Detects new Intel processors features: 36-bit Page Size Extension, Processor serial number, Cache Line Flush Instruction, Debug Trace and EMON Store, ACPI, Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE-2), Selfsnoop, IA64 - Detects new AMD processor features: Page Address Extensions, APIC, Memory Type Range Registers, Machine Check Architecture, Page Attribute Table, Page Size Extensions 36 bit, AMD MMX Instruction Extensions, FXSAVE/FXRSTOR - Added detection of monitor model under Windows 9x - Optimized detection of IDE devices, no non-existing drives can be detected since now - Program runs in a command line mode on 8086 processors:-) - Optimized information display format on processor cache - Detects Intel Pentium III 512kB cache and Intel Pentium III Xeon 512kB cache manufactured by 0.18mk technology due to BrandId analysis - Added 178 vendors of PCI devices and 136 new devices (including chipsets VIA KX133, SIS 540, SIS 630, videochips S3 Savage 2000, NVidia NV11 and NV15) - Added 2 monitor vendors and 114 new models - Fixed bug when processor information was not displayed for some Cyrix 6x86MX processors - Blocked displaying Cyrix processor name in a extended information window as these processors don't support it - Fixed minor bug when IOMEGA drive is installed as master while CD-ROM - as slave - Fixed bug when detecting HDD UDMA modes - Fixed bug when data file couldn't be opened on some computers - Informer on the Web: http://www.informer.newmail.ru Version 3.21 (December 23, 1999) -------------------------------- - Added detection of Centaur/IDT WinChip2A (C2A), WinChip3 (C3), Rise mP6 and mP6-II processors - Detects SSE instructions of Pentium III processors and AMD Extended 3DNow! - Added information on bit per pixel number in VESA modes - Added 242 vendors of PCI devices and 398 new devices, including new chipsets i810, i820, i840, VIA Apollo Pro, etc. Added 1 monitor model - Code names of new processors changed to their official names (Intel Itanium and AMD Athlon) - Fixed minor bug when detecting APM - Fixed bug when displaying additional information on Intel P6 processors cache - Fixed bug of detection of non-existed CD-ROM named A when running under Windows 95/98 - Internal model of IOMEGA drive was earlier detected as CD-ROM - Blocked displaying extended information on AMD K5 PR100 processors and lower, as these processors don't support it - Fixed minor bug when detecting some AMD chipsets - E-mail has changed to kkv@krata.tambov.ru; new FidoNet address: 2:5009/5.17 - Program is available at FTP-server: ftp://ftp.krata.tambov.ru/pub/informer Version 3.20 (March 31, 1999) ----------------------------- - Internal program structure is totally changed - Added overlays - New version of the library 'x86 CPU/FPU Detection Library'. TMi0SDGL Revision 2 Version 2.06. Copyright(c) 1996-98 by B-coolWare is used for detecting processors without CPUID support and frequency of 486 processors and lower - Added detection of sound card type and its installation - For Intel P6 processors and higher - detects L1/L2 cache size and type. For AMD K5 processors and higher detects L1 cache size and type. - Detects HDD support of Ultra DMA modes, S.M.A.R.T. technology, etc. - Detects processors: Intel: Pentium III Xeon Pentium III Pentium II Xeon Celeron Pentium II Over Drive for P54C (P55CT) 80386SL 80C86 80C88 AMD: K6-2-3D K6-Plus-3D Am486DX Am486SX AMD Elan SC400 Microcontroller Cyrix: Cx486SRx/SRx2 Cx486SRu/SRu2 Cx486DRx/DRx2 Cx486DRu/DRu2 Cx486S_a SGS-Thomson: ST486DX2 C&T: 38600 38600SX Centaur (IDT): Centaur (IDT) C2 - Detects coprocessors: Intel: RapidCAD IIT: 4C87DLC ULSI: 84x87 - Detects new processor features (Fast Save/Restore, Cyrix Extended MMX, AMD 3DNow!, internal processor name, etc). - Detects COM port with mouse installed - Added detection of 407 vendors of PCI devices and 391 new PCI devices (including i440BX, i440GX and VIA MVP3 chipsets) - Added 8 monitor vendors and 56 new monitor models - Corrected CRT module version - earlier program was not responding at computers with processors higher than Pentium II 233 MHz - Fixed bugs while detecting mouse presence and getting information from VBE 2.0 BIOS - FIDO address has changed: 2:5009/7.12 - You can contact author at e-mail: informer1@chat.ru Version 3.11 (April 18, 1998) ----------------------------- - At last but not the least! Fixed bug when detecting monitor vendor - Detects Centaur (IDT) C6 processor - Detects ATAPI device type - Added Samsung SyncMaster 400b monitor Version 3.1 (April 9, 1998) --------------------------- - Detects AGP bus (Pentium II) and 3Dfx Voodoo2 accelerator - Detects UMC U486DX2 and UMC U486SX2 processors - Added 2 vendors of PCI devices and 11 monitor vendors - Added 235 new PCI devices and 3 monitor models Version 3.0 (April 2, 1998) --------------------------- - Detects free base memory size - Fixed bug known in computers with two HDD Version 3.0 beta (March 25, 1998) --------------------------------- - Detects model and parameters of monitor!!! Version 2.1 beta (March 21, 1998) --------------------------------- - Detects model and parameters of CD-ROM - Information on all system disks including Primary/Master is now available - Detects mouse type - Fixed bug when frequency of UMC U5S and U5D processors was increased twice if compared with a real one Version 2.0 (March 15, 1998) ---------------------------- - Detects vendor and type of all PCI devices - Detects chipset - Detects PCI video card type - Detects Universal Serial Bus (USB) presence - Optimized search of chipset ID in AMI BIOS Version 1.1 (March 11, 1998) ---------------------------- - Added saving of a file report - Fixed AMI BIOS bug. When detecting parameters of a non-existing HDD, the program returns a 10 MB HDD instead of displaying an error message - Written documentation Version 1.0 (December 23, 1997) ------------------------------- - First official release of the program. Earlier there were numerous beta versions. [END]