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- - Start of history.
- - Detects IDE Fixed Disk size up to 4 GB (Added for E-IDE support).
- - Added Network detection - for FTP Packet Drivers.
- - Added PCMCIA sockets and Adaptec 154x/1640/174x cards detection.
- - Fixed some bugs.
- - New design.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.12ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Converted to .EXE, changed protection.
- - Fixed CPU identification through RESET (A20 line) and some another bugs.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.13ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added SCSI Peripherals (Disks, Streamers, Printers, Processors, WORMs,
- CD-ROMs, Scanners, Optical Drives...) identification for all devices, that
- support ASPI (SCSIMGR$) driver.
- - Moved SCSI CD-ROM detection into SCSI Peripherals section.
- - Fixed bug in TVGA 8800BR/CS video memory size detection.
- - Some new expansion cards added (SCSI Host Adapters).
- - Added Plug-and-Play (ACFG = AutoConFiGuration) support detection.
- - Some new CPUs added.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.14ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Some minor bugs fixed (Intel Pentium FDIV error, ASPI, Design...).
- - Added Upgrade and OverDrive CPU detection for CPUs, that support CPUID.
- - Some Stupid Old 286- BIOSes crash while PCMCIA and Plug-and-Play detection
- (they don't return an error from INT 1Ah, but jump elsewhere ... - there is
- no workaround). Disable these item in Setup section, if your system hangs.
- - Fixed miro video cards detection (now fully depending on BIOS).
- - Added new Tseng W32i/p chipset revisions and WD90C35.
- - Fixed Matsushita through Sound Blaster connected CD-ROMs detection.
- - I have rewritten the whole Disk info; more flexible. Now: Supports 4 Disk
- Drives (E-IDE), obtains some info from MFM/RLL/ARLL and ESDI disks and
- individual Fixed Disk Controller detection added (for multiple Controller
- systems). But SCSI drives still do not return any info (except drive size
- for those, which do not have disabled INT 13h); try to look into SCSI
- section.
- - Added Cyrix M1 and Intel Pentium P24T CPU.
- - Added new Adaptec Host Adapters.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.2 ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Total NEW design, "User friendly", mouse support own fonts...
- - Added creating of a log file.
- - Added PCI and EISA slot contents identification (expansion cards ID's).
- - Added several new MCA expansion cards (now recognizes 1224 MCA cards).
- - Added Future Domain SCSI controllers identification.
- - Some minor bugs fixed.
- - Added FPU frequency detection.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.21ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added ALG2228, NCR 77C32BLT and Weitek W5086/W5186/W5286 processor + P9000
- coprocessor detection.
- - Added new video memory size detection for chipsets, which video memoy size
- was unable to detect.
- - Rewritten SCSI devices identification and SCSI disks now return their
- physical informations.
- - Advanced design.
- - Added new detection for ATI mach64 with Video memory size detection.
- Hope it will work...
- - For some graphics cards and chipsets added Bus interface type detection.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.22ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Some work on design.
- - Added Intel P6 (Civil name not yet available).
- - Added APM check and Battery status report.
- - Added VESA Power Management detection.
- - Added Hercules MDA cards check (maybe they still exist somewhere).
- - Added some new FPU's.
- - Some minor bugs fixed.
- - Added VLB test, but only if there is a VLB Video card present :-(
- - Added Intel Pentium P55C and P24CT, not quite sure...
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.23ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added AMD 80C287 Co-Processor.
- - Added Intel P23T and Scorpion Co-Processors (but what are they about???).
- - Some bugs fixed.
- - New stepping levels added.
- - Added detection of SL CPU IDs (30Eh, OMCU).
- - Some work on FPU and CPU frequency detection. I've used new routines and
- now it works fine!
- - Some work on Cache size detection - added Internal cache size detection;
- Internal Cache 1-32 KB; External Cache 64-512 KB.
- - Added support for PCI Expansion cards Configuration Space Access Mechanism
- 1 and 2.
- - Added Chipset detection for newer Award BIOSes.
- - Better detection of Cx487S Co-Processor.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.3 ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Some new bugs found :-( Fixed...
- - New stepping levels added.
- - Added AMD Krypton K5 (but K5 is still not released), some new Cyrix CPUs,
- TI486SXLC and Am486(TM) SX2.
- - The Internal Cache size reflects only the Data (not Instruction!) cache.
- - Discovered, that some BIOSes (newer AMI Win VLB/PCI) destroy CPU ID.
- - Added some new Am486 CPUs.
- - Added Trident GUI9440 AGi (VLB).
- - Added Method 2 to get CPU ID (Reset while A20 is Disabled --> INT 6).
- - Now it tells, which Method was used to obtain CPU ID - the dark blue text
- in CPU ID column.
- - Added Cx486DX2-v (3.0 V) and ST486DX2.
- - Fixed some bugs while running on an XT. ;-)
- - Added Fixed Disk Performance report
- (Data Transfer rate and Average Seek Time) - via BIOS.
- - Fixed detection and added frequency determination for Nx586.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.31ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Precisious CPU & FPU frequency detection added (On Am486DX2-80 ± 0.2 MHz).
- - Added PCI, APM and P-N-P version report.
- - Some work with colors.
- - Added Avance Logic ALG2301 (PCI).
- - Added Shadow RAM and Total Memory report. I don't think it will work 100%.
- - Some new steppings added.
- - Added detection of AMI Flash BIOS + version. But only if it supports
- AMI BIOS-Flash Interface.
- - Added Wide (16-bit) / (32-bit) SCSI report if present.
- - Added Fixed Disk Spindle Speed report (RPM). Precision ±3 RPM.
- - Added Method 3 to obtain CPU ID (modifies BIOS). On my PC (BIOS overwrites
- CPU ID) works it pretty good and displays a correct CPU ID.
- - Added Sound Blaster SCSI-2 and AWE32.
- - Added Am486DX4 W-B Enhanced, Max. Disk PIO Mode, Disk Transfer Width, IORDY
- and something else...
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.4 ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added Video BIOS version report.
- - Added Video Card Bus width report for some cards.
- - New routine for Game Ports detection.
- - Better detection of BIOS manufacturers (AMI WinBIOS...) + date.
- - Added SMBus.
- - Fixed older 1MB Trident video cards memory report.
- - Added ATI Graphics Xpression Pro, Diamond Stealth64 Video,
- Diamond Stealth64 Video VRAM, Genoa Phantom 64 8864 and Genoa Phantom Pro
- graphics boards.
- - Added Data Care DC-600A/DC-620A Disk Cache Controller.
- - Added Video RAM Throughput report (ditect, 16-bit, write).
- - Added DHRYSTONE report - used Norbert Juffa's (CTEST260) Pascal routine of
- Dhrystone 2.1. I've implemented a totally identical code (in assembler!),
- and the results are nearly the same (± 200 Dhrystones/s).
- - HWiNFO now flushes (Writes-Back) NCACHE-x buffers before running.
- - Added Cardex Video Cards detection (ICS5341 tested - Tseng ET4000/W32p).
- - Added Trident 9440AGi, 9660XGi PCI ID and NCR Vendor IDs.
- - Added VIA VT83C461 E-IDE Disk Controller.
- - Added detection of ATAPI devices.
- - Added universal detection of NCR SCSI PCI chips & BIOSes (tested NCR53710).
- - Added Min. Transfer Rates for E-IDE disks report (with DMA, PIO with IORDY
- flow, PIO w/o IORDY flow) and IORDY disableable capability.
- - Added C&T F65525, F65535/45 and F65540 video chipsets.
- - Added new SPEA Graphiti boards.
- - Added RISC Video Accelerator report. First checks for Processor
- (Intel i860/TMS 340x0/Hitachi ACRTC) and then for Accelerator boards
- (now only SPEA Graphiti). I'm working on another boards...
- - Added SPEA Showtime Plus graphics board.
- - New routines for Cirrus video boards detection (incl. identifies CL-GD5428
- if BIOS says CL-GD5426).
- - Added BIOS Extension search (SCSI, ESDI, IDE BIOSes ...). Try and you'll
- see :-)
- DC-600A/DC-620A and NCR PCI chips&BIOSes moved into BIOS Extension section.
- - Added S3 Vision864-P and Vision964-P.
- - Added Genoa VideoBlitz 9500 and III AV.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.5 ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added: S3 86C805 D, 86C801-P, 86C801/5 rev I and a correct detection routine
- for Vision866, Vision868, Vision968, Trio32, Trio64; ARK1000VL, ARK1000PV,
- ARK2000PV, Sierra Semiconductor SC15064 (Falcon/64), new routine for Weitek
- P9000+W5086/W5186/W5286 / P9100 detection, but the Video memory check is not
- 100% correct; IIT AGX-010/011, AGX-014, AGX-015, AGX-016; distinguish
- between ALG2101 and ALG2201; ALG2302, ALG2364; Acer ALi M3145; better
- distinguish between C&T Video chipsets, added 64300 and 64310 WinGine;
- Matrox MGA-I (Atlas) and MGA-II (not quite sure).
- - Added Genoa Hornet II and Diamond Stealth32 Video Cards.
- - Added new Video PCI cards.
- - A new feature, which I was asked for: While Scroll Lock is active, no disk
- benchmarks will be performed.
- - If no TMS board is found while hardware tests (HP IGC, NEC MSGE, SPEA),
- HWiNFO tries to get the board name via standard TIGACD.EXE driver
- (installed at any interrupt in the "SET TIGA=" path or standard at 7Fh).
- - GUS revisions, amount of DRAM report and Gravis Ultra Max added.
- - Some work on ASPI routines and disk reports.
- - Added Sound Blaster AWE32 ASP (hope, it will work).
- - Added several new Video DACs and the whole routine is now rewritten.
- Fixed a bug which occurs on Trident 9000 video boards when bit2 in 3C6h reg.
- is set. The most DAC detection programs crash, but HWiNFO don't :-)
- - Added ATI mach8 (38800-1; not quite sure!) and some older ATI boards
- identification.
- - Added Diamond Stealth SE video card.
- - Fixed right-alligned (space padded) IDE-disk ser. number report.
- - Added VESA VBE version report.
- - Fixed Edsun CEG DAC detection. Never verified!
- As for me, VGADOC3 uses an invalid routine to detect this DAC, because it
- writes to 3C9h in write mode. But it should work only while writing in
- read mode.
- - Removed AMI Flash BIOS detection (some older AMI BIOSes caused crash).
- - Added Keyboard controller version report.
- - Added IBM 486BLDX2 Blue Lightning and some CPU steppings.
- - Added Adaptec AIC-7770 and AHA-2740 SCSI Hosts.
- - Added detection of Serial port UARTs and baud rate.
- Recognizes 8250, 16450, 16550, 16550A, IBM Type 3.
- - Fixed i486SL ID detection.
- - Added new detection routine for Parallel ports.
- Recognizes 4-bit port, 8-bit Bidirectional and Enhanced Parallel Port (SL).
- - Fixed a small bug in some Cirrus video cards detection.
- - Added Cyrix FasCache Cx486DX4 detection.
- - If Video or Optional BIOS supports Plug-and-Play, a green [PnP] sign is
- displayed.
- - Some new Machine types added.
- - Added UMC U486DX2 and SX2.
- - Added new method of checking for Flash BIOS. If found, displays a green
- "[Flash]" sign in BIOS Manufacturer line.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.6 ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added ATI Graphics Vantage detection routine.
- - Hopefully fixed Trident 9440AGi 32-bit bus detection.
- - Added Number Nine VISION FX330, MOTION FX531, MOTION FX771 graphics cards.
- - Added Diamond SpeedStar 24, SpeedStar Plus; Orchid ProDesigner, II, IIs and
- Diamond Viper SE.
- - Added distinguish between ICS5341 and ICS5342 GENDACs.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 1.61ß ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Fixed a BIG-shit bug in Video Throughput test (previously occured only on
- fast machines, like P54C-133).
- - Added about 250 new PCI Vendor and some new Device IDs.
- - Added Intel P54T and a newer detection routine for Cx486DX4-v.
- - Added MultiProcessor Specification (MPS) support !
- HWiNFO is now able to detect the amount and type of more CPUs and/or
- Buses.
- - Added hardware detection of PCMCIA adapter.
- - Added Cirrus Logic CL-GD7541 (Nordic Lite), 7542 (Nordic), 7543 (Viking),
- Trident 9660 XGi, C&T F65548, Number Nine Imagine128 and Alliance Pro
- Motion 3210.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.00 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added another new (about 250 PCI and 150 EISA) Expansion cards.
- - When a PCI BIOS moves the CPU ID into upper part of the DWORD and stores
- 0CF8h (PCI configuration register I/O used by some BIOSes immediately to
- initialize machine) into the lower part od CPU ID, HWiNFO recognizes the
- right CPU ID.
- - The Flash ROM detection works now only for ASUSTeK and Award FLASH support.
- I'm working on more...
- - Added Energy Star and GreenPC report.
- - New routine for GUS memory detection.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.01 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - New nice palette.
- - Some bugfixes.
- - Reduced unregistred version usages :-)
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- - Added Promise Technology EIDE2300PLUS VLB Disk Controller.
- - Added OAK Mozart Sound card.
- - Added new S3 Vision968 ID.
- - Fixed Diamond Stealth64 Video VRAM detection.
- - Fixed GUS DRAM size report.
- - Added new detection routine for Alliance Pro Motion 3210, ATI 88800GX & CX,
- Cirrus new adapters, Matrox MGA series (MGA-I and II),
- #9 Imagine128 Video RAM size detection and fixed some bugs.
- - Added Video card bus detection for another video cards.
- - Added ATT 22c498, IC Works W30c516 DAC, CHRONTEL CH8391, CH8398, IBM RGB524,
- RGB525, OAK 66HC and UMC 70c178 DACs.
- - Fixed some video RAMDAC routines.
- - HWiNFO now (while ISA/VLB checking procedure) says which card is currently
- checked and at which port. If HWiNFO hangs, it allows you to determine which
- hardware test caused it.
- - Added Alliance Pro Motion 3210 video memory size report.
- - Fixed Trident Internal DAC detection.
- - Added Video chipset and card detection steps report.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.21 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Dec-19-1995
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- - Reduced unregistered "typing shit" again ;-)
- - Fixed a really nasty BUG which caused ET3000/4000 and IIT video boards to
- crash.
- - Hopefully fixed TI TVP3026 DAC detection.
- - Some minor bug fixes and advances.
- - Added distinguish between MFM, RLL and ARLL.
- - Added distinguish between 3Com EtherLink III 3C509B, 3C509B-TP, 3C509B-TPO
- and 3C509B-Combo.
- - 3Com EtherLink III detection can be disabled now in the Setup menu, because
- this routine reconfigured an Western Digital Ethernet card :-(.
- - Some protection against BHcrack added. Hahaha.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.22 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added detection of Intel 82420TX SATURN, 82420EX ARIES, 82430LX NEPTUNE and
- 82430FX TRITON chipset in the System menu (Mainboard chipset).
- - Added new detection routine for Keyboard Controller, it reports the whole
- copyright notice included in the 8042 KBD BIOS.
- - Added Plug-and-Play devices detection.
- - Added new UART types.
- - Added Mediavision MVV452 chipset + MV Pro Graphics 1024 card and MVV462
- Video RAMDAC.
- - Fixed a shitty mouse bug.
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- - Fixed CPU ID detection Method 2. Now works very well.
- - Some minor advances.
- - I'm able to detect the type of Flash EPROM chip (like INTEL P28F001BX-T),
- but it requires setting the EPROM into write mode (via jumpers), so the
- detection routine is of no use (is there anyone, who opens his case and
- sets jumper only to detect the EPROM chip?). The routine is disabled.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.24 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added Am x5-P75-133; in fact is it an AMD Am486DX4 Write-Back Enhanced
- with 16 KBytes Internal Cache.
- - A small bug-fix in Parallel ports detection.
- - Enhanced protection.
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- - Reduced unregistered "typing shit" again and again ;-)
- - Fixed Avance Logic ALG2228 detection.
- - Updated Plug-and-Play device scanning.
- - Added Cyrix 5x86 (M1sc) and 6x86 (M1rx).
- - Added some new CPU steppings + some minor updates.
- - Added Intel i80C86A and i80C88A detection (CMOS technology).
- - Added identification of ATAPI drives (CD-ROMs, streamers...).
- - Added STB VGA Extra/EM or EM16, PowerGraph VGA (1MB), PowerGraph/PowerView
- VGA (512KB).
- - Added IDE Disk Security Feature + Max. # of Passwords + Max. Multiword DMA
- Timing Mode report.
- - Updated Disk drives detection routine - now very flexible; identifies drives
- like: port 1F0h primary - IDE disk; port 1F0h sec. - EIDE disk; port 170h
- prim. - (nothing); port 170h, sec. - ATAPI CD-ROM; plus some SCSI disks with
- BIOS Enabled.
- - Added S3 Trio64 V+ (86C765) video chip, Diamond Stealth64 Graphics2001 and
- Diamond Stealth64 Video2001 graphics boards.
- - Added detection of Windows NT at the front of coding.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.31 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Updated STB detection routine, which caused invalid identification of cards
- with no STB.
- - Added Texas Instruments TI486DX2 and TI486DX4.
- - Fixed Cyrix 5x86 detection.
- - Some bugfixes.
- - F-PROT's Heuristic scan doesn't now report, that HWiNFO contains a
- "virus-suspicious code".
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.32 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added about 30 new PCI vendors.
- - Added detection of Aladdin HASP Hardware Key connected to Parallel port :-)
- (tested MemoHASP-1 for JURIX).
- - Added CD-ROM Transfer Rate Benchmark. It requires MSCDEX to be installed.
- - Added 36-bit Addressing, 2MB Pages to CPU Features.
- - Added detection routine for Advanced Signal Processor (ASP) on Sound Blaster
- boards. It's better, because the old routine detected ASP from DSP version.
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- - Added detection of CPU Update Revision (ID) to CPU Identification screen
- (available only on Intel Pentium Pro Processor).
- - New detection routine for Extended memory size; now correctly reports the
- amount of RAM on systems, which have > 64 MB of memory. The BIOS must
- support INT 15h, Fn. E820h.
- - Small bugfix in Multiprocessor identification section + active CPUs are now
- displayed green and disabled red.
- - Updated Matrox video chipsets and cards detection. Added MGA-2064W chipset,
- corrected MGA-I and MGA-II detection. Added more cards: Ultima, Impression,
- PRO, Ultima Plus (VLB/2, VLB/4, PCI/2 and PCI/4), Impression Lite,
- Impression Plus and Millennium. I can't find any doc about Matrox (except
- VGADOC4, but I think the detection routines are not correct). This info was
- discovered using 32-bit DOS/4GW debugger launched at Matrox setup.exe file.
- - Added detection of ESS Technology ES688, New Media WaveJammer, Ensoniq
- SoundScape, Sound Master II and I/O Magic Tempo digital audio cards.
- - Updated CD Benchmark a little bit.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.34 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added Matrox MGA Millennium PCI ID + new routine for its detection and
- WRAM report (in Protected mode).
- - Fixed a really stupid bug - detection of Am486DX4 WB Enhanced CPUs.
- - Some small updates.
- - Fixed Diamond Stealth64 bus detection (VLB/PCI).
- - Fixed a small bug in Intel Triton chipset detection [instead of CX was
- there DX ... :-( ]
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.35 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
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- - Added SPEA V7-Mercury P-64V video card.
- - Fixed some small bugs in CD-ROM detection + better detection of Mitsumi
- CD-ROMs.
- - Moved RISC Video acc. to second screen of Video info (Second graphics
- accelerator). Added new detection routines for TMS Processor (hard).
-
- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.50 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
-
- - Created Roll-Up menus + mouse support + hotkeys for them
- (pretty hard work in assembler :-))
- - Separeted screens; now is each screen directly accesible.
- - ATAPI info separated from Disk info.
- - Fixed some small bugs.
- - Added more items to ATAPI screen.
- - Added several new PCI cards.
- - Added ARK Logic ARK2000MT Video Adapter.
- - Added Auto-Logging feature.
- - You can now save your settings to file HWiNFO.CFG.
-
- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.51 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: May-08-1996
-
- - Added more PCI Vendors and Devices (about +200).
- - Added Intel 82450KX Orion Pentium Pro chipset detection.
- - Added detection of NexGen Nx686 CPU.
- - Added some new CPU Steppings.
- - Added detection of BrookTree BtV2115 and BtV2125 MediaStream video chipset.
- - Added NVidia NV1 and OAK OTI-64111 video chipsets.
- - Added Number Nine MEDIA FX574 Video card.
- - Separated history and list form doc.
- - Fixed some small bugs (PrtScr while saving settings, ATAPI cache buffer)
-
- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.52 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Jun-06-1996
-
- - Added Texas Instruments TVP3027 RAMDAC.
- - Added several new CPU Steppings (for P54C, Am5k86, Cx6x86 and P6).
- - Fixed Cx6x86 detection.
- - Added new CPU Features (for Pentium Pro).
- - Fixed "CPU ID destroyed by BIOS" message for Cyrix CPUs.
- - Added 5 new CPU Features - available on Pentium Pro.
- - Some minor updates.
- - Added SPEA FireGL Video Adapter.
- - Added Instruction Cache State (Enabled/Disabled), Data Cache State
- (Enabled/Disabled), Branch Prediction (Enabled/Disabled) and Instruction
- Execution (U-pipe only/U-pipe and V-pipe) detection. It requires either a
- CPU with Intel Pentium MSR-compatible registers (Pentium/Pentium Pro)
- or an AMD 5k86 CPU.
-
- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 2.53 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Jul-28-1996
-
- - Fixed Trident 9200CXr detection.
- - Added Intel 82430HX TRITON II chipset.
- - Fixed ALG detection.
- - Added detection of Video RAMDAC for Matrox MGA Millennium boards:
- TI TVP3026 175 MHz, TVP3026 220 MHz, TVP3027 175 MHz and TVP3027 220 MHz.
- - Fixed S3 Trio64 V+ detection (rev. 4X) -- Thanx to Antti Barck.
- - Fixed Cyrix 5x86 detection (I forgot, that it doesn't support CPUID).
- - Some minor updates.
- - Advanced ISA and VLB cards info.
- - Added TLB, L1 and L2 Cache info for Pentium Pro+ systems.
- - Some bugfixes in Disk section.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.00 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Aug-15-1996
-
- - HWiNFO IS ABLE TO RUN UNDER SOME V86 MANAGERS (those, which support
- Windows INIT BROADCAST), LIKE EMM386, QEMM386 ...
- For details see the doc.
- - Some bugfixes.
- - Added S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX Video Chips.
- - Added Diamond Stealth Video 1000 Video Adapter.
- - Added Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Series and 3000 Video Adapter.
- - Added SPEA V7-VEGA PLUS, V7-VEGA PRO, V7-VEGA VIDEO, V7-Mirage P-32,
- V7-Mirage P-64 V, V7-Mirage VIDEO, V7-Mercury P-64.
- - Added Alliance 6410, 6412, 6420, 6422 Provideo, 6424, 6426 Video Chipsets.
- - Some small advances.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.01 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
-
- - Fixed ATI mach32 Video RAM size report.
- - COM4 port isn't checked if ATI mach32 Adapter is found, because it uses
- port 2E8h.
- - New DIZ file; renamed to "FILE_ID.DIZ".
- - Changed some colors (especially for Emil Laurentiu's monitor :-)).
- - Some design changes.
- - Added Chips and Technologies F65550 HiQVideo Adapter.
- - Internally total rewritten.
- - Added some new PCI & EISA IDs.
- - Added Distributed Processing Technology SCSI Host Adapter.
- - Added universal detection of ALL Diamond Video cards.
- - Fixed NVidia NV1 detection.
- - Added SPEA V7-STORM PRO Video Adapter and fixed V7-MIRAGE P-64 V detection.
-
- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.02 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Oct-07-1996
-
- - Added N9 Imagine128 Series 2 Video Adapter.
- - Added Intel 82430VX TRITON II, 82440FX NATOMA and 82430MX MOBILE TRITON
- chipset.
- - Fixed Cyrix 5x86 Internal FPU detection.
- - Added new PCI and EISA Adapters.
- - Fixed Plug-and-Play devices detection. Now really works and also with
- BIOSes, which do not support $PnP, but those cards must be initialized as
- first.
- - Added Number Nine REALITY FX332 Video Adapter.
- - Added new BIOS Extensions.
- - Fixed ability to run under Pentium Pro.
- (BTW, Pentium Pro seems to ?emulate? detection of Cyrix CPU and NPU ! Why?)
- - Added some new PCI IDs.
- - Another bugs fixed.
- - Added universal detection of newer Hewlett-Packard machines
- (tested HP Vectra XU 6/150).
- - Somehow fixed Intel OverDrive Processors detection (P54M, P54T).
- - Added ATI mach64 ET, LT and VT Video Adapters.
- - Added ARK Quadro64 and Tseng ET6000 Video Adapter.
- - Added Hercules Graphite Terminator 64 DRAM, 64 VRAM, 32 DRAM, 64 Video and
- Professional; Hercules Stingray, Pro, 64 and 64 Video Graphics Adapters.
- - Each PCI device returns now detailed info about Revision, Class code,
- Memory and ROM location, IRQ, Interrupt pin and some features.
- - Fixed S3 968 with 4MB VRAM Video size detection.
- - Fixed CPU Freq. via TSC report.
- - Added detection of EDO DRAM/VRAM for S3 Video cards.
-
- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.03 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Oct-21-1996
-
- - Added some Intel EISA Evaluation Board IDs.
- - Added support for 64-bit Memory Base in Detailed PCI Device info.
- - Added OPTi 82C924, 82C930 and MAD16 Sound Chipsets.
- - Added Matrox MGA Mystique Video Adapter.
- - Fixed a small bug in PCI devices detection (the bug occures only in v3.02
- with MGA Millennium or #9 Imagine128 video board).
- - Moved Pentium Pro cache detection to System menu.
- - Added detection of Synchronous Pipelined Burst, Synchronous Burst,
- Asynchronous and Dual-Bank Pipelined Burst cache, but only for
- Intel TRITON FX/HX/VX/MX and SiS 85C511 chipsets.
- - Added distinguish between Intel Mercury and Neptune chipset.
- - Added detection of EDO RAM, but only for Intel TRITON FX/HX/VX/MX chipsets.
- - Added Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446, CL-GD7548, CL-GD5425, CL-GD6245, CL-GD5480,
- CL-GD5462 and CL-GD5464 Video Adapters, Synchronous DRAM and Rambus DRAM
- size detection for them.
- - Added detection of TV Tuner (Philips, Temic, Alps and S3 Scenic/MX2), but
- only if it's on a Video Card, which uses S3 chipset.
- - Added Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG detection.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.04 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Oct-28-1996
-
- - Some minor changes.
- - Added Matrox MGA-1064SG video chip detection (used by MGA Mystique).
- But I'm not able to detect its SGRAM memory size yet.
- - Added Orchid Fahrenheit 64, Pro64 and ProVideo64 Video Cards detection.
- - Added S3 Trio64 UV+, Aurora64 V+ and Aurora128 Video chips.
- - New routine to identify Cyrix CPUs. Should work also on 5x86.
- - Added some new PCI devices.
- - Added new detection routine for Sound Blaster AWE32.
- - Fixed a bug in Cirrus video memory size detection.
- - The CPU Frequency is measured the whole time, you have the System info
- screen open.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.05 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Dec-09-1996
-
- - Fixed errors in English text.
- - Reduced Unregistred prompt occurance.
- - Added AMD-K6 detection.
- - Fixed Fixed disk size report for larger disks.
- - Added support for AMD K5 and K6 Special CPU Features (obtained via
- CPUID[80000001]).
- - Added report of CPU Name.
- It's available only on AMD-K5 (NOT SSA/5 !) and K6 CPUs.
- - Fixed detection of Cyrix 6x86 with CPU and FPU frequency report.
- I didn't know, that it doesn't support CPUID instruction.
- - Added S3 Trio64 V2/DX (86C775) plus Trio64 and Trio32 steppings.
- - Added detection of 1st level Instruction and Data cache size for
- AMD-K5 and K6 CPUs.
- - Added new EISA-style IDs.
- - Fixed AMD-K5 CPU & FPU frequency detection.
- - Fixed a really nasty bug (Divide Overflow) in Dhrystone benchmark.
- - Added report of P-RATING for AMD-K5 (PR75-133) and Cyrix 6x86 (P120-200+)
- Processors.
- - Added detection of Extended Capabilities Port - ECP.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.0.6 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Jan-06-1997
-
- - Fixed a bug in Pentium Pro FPU frequency report.
- - Fixed a small bug in Extended Memory size report.
- - Some minor bugfixes.
- - Multi-user licence prices.
- - Added new CPU steppings, changed CPU names and added Pentium Pro MMX.
- - Added AMD K5-PR150 and PR166.
- - Added Orchid Fahrenheit Video 3D and Genoa Stratos 3D.
- - Fixed Genoa video card report.
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- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 3.0.7 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: Jan-29-1997
-
- - Changed codenames for Intel Pentium Processors --> see HWiNFO.DOC
- - Somehow fixed IIT 4C87DLC Coprocessor detection when used with
- Cx486xxx CPUs, without Internal FPU.
- - Added new CPU Steppings, also for P55C (MMX).
- - HWiNFO now turns CPUIDEN bit on if Cyrix 5x86 or 6x86 CPU is found
- to receive information via CPUID.
- - Added detection of SDRAM for 82437VX TRITON II, EDO and BEDO DRAM for
- 82441FX NATOMA chipsets.
- - Added detection of Cyrix M2.
- - Some little bugfixes.
- - Added some new EISA adapters.
- - Added some new Toshiba Laptop models.
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- Released: Apr-29-1997
-
- - HWiNFO HAS BEEN REWRITTEN TO C++.
-
- - New Registration key.
- - Added Hercules Graphite Dynamite 128 and Terminator 3D detection.
- - Some workaround with old Headland video chips detection.
- - Fixed some bugs found in video detection.
- - Added ELSA Video Cards.
- - Added detection of Video BIOS ver. for Tseng Labs cards.
- - Fixed a bug in ATAPI devices identification.
- - Extended MultiProcessor System info.
- - Fixed some bugs in TV Tuner detection.
- - Added S3 ViRGE DX/GX adapter.
- - Added detection of Microsoft Windows Sound System.
- - Added detection of Cyrix 6x86L and MediaGX (Gx86) CPUs.
- - Some Cyrix CPUs report also their version (like 6x86 ver. 2.6).
- - Added detection of Sentinel Hardware Keys.
- - Added detection of Rendition Verite 1000 3D Accelerator.
- - Added MediaVision Jazz-8, Jazz-16 and Thunder Board sound card detection.
- - Added detection of Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova/Pro 16 and Sound Galaxy Stellar
- cards.
- - Plug-and-Play devices now return detailed info.
- - Sound Blaster cards now return info about DSP, (c), IRQ, DMA.
- - Added Sound Blaster AWE32 DRAM size report.
- - Added detection of Additional 3D Accelerator.
- - Fixed SDRAM report for i430VX chipsets.
- - Added some info about APM.
- - Added detection of SB 16 PnP, AWE32 PnP, GUS PnP,
- Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova, Pro and Washington 16 PnP.
- - Added support of multiple PCI buses.
- - PCI devices identification more precise due to Revision ID determination.
- - Added Bravo 16 sound card.
-
- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Ver. 4.0.1 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
- Released: May-23-1997
-
- - Added info about Plug-and-Play device nodes.
- - Updated Plug-and-Play devices info.
- - Fixed P-Ratings for K5 CPUs.
- - Added /PR2- ratings for K6 CPUs.
- - Added new EISA-style IDs (PnP devices).
- - Added FIST Bug (Dan-0411) test.
- This bug occurs on Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs.
- - Added new Pentium Pro stepping and Pentium MMX OverDrive stepping.
- - Added "Fast System Call" feature. It was the previous "?", because
- Pentium Pro Processors (stepping 061x) do not support it correctly.
- - Added 49 new SMC/WD LAN Adapters.
- - Added Intel 82430TX Mobile Triton II PCIset with it's cache and DRAM type
- detection.
- - Added detection of AMD-640(TM) Chipset and its DRAM type.
- - Fixed some small bugs.
-