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Posted: **Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:36 pm**

Hello,
i'm working as oem manufacturer of computer systems.
We want to add special system information to our assembled systems in the bios.
Most times we use ASUS boards, and i allready saw some systems with this information in,
and our prgrammer did a tool to read these strings.
But we cant find any kind of onformation how to write these strings to the bios during the flashing process.
ASUS itself has no information about this, and the mail/hotline support is disinformed about this topic.

Thanks in advance
old_bill

Posted: **Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:58 pm**

Do you mean DMI?

Posted: **Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:11 pm**

Hello,
yes, my fault, this is also known as DMI.

old_bill

Posted: **Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:03 pm**

AFAIK, you have to run a DMI tool and copy the information over from a previously saved DMI file.

Posted: **Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:05 pm**

Ok, and do you have any suggestions for such a tool?

thx
old_bill

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:17 pm**

I think it depends if the BIOS is AWARD or AMI. Does the ASUS site have a DMI tool available?

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:37 pm**

Yes, they have a tool for this, called PC Probe, but you can just read these values with that.
And the BIOS is always Award at the newer boards.

Posted: **Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:08 pm**

Search for DMICFG...look for a recent version that is compatible with your BIOS.

Posted: **Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:34 pm**

That's what i'm looking for, thanks!

Posted: **Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:34 pm**

You're welcome!

Please post back with your success (or not).

Posted: **Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:40 pm**

Well, i could enter the DMI in DOS mode, read all values and also assign new to them,
but then the tool couldnt write it, it gave me an error about not possible to write...

But i can export a DMI file, is it possoble to add such a file during a normal flash process?

old_bill

Posted: **Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:42 am**

Hi.

Which DMI modification utility did you use?
Which Asus mainboard do you have?
Which BIOS does the mainboard have?

Posted: **Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:10 pm**

Well, i used DMICFG.exe for this, which can be found here:
http://www.bios-info.de/_progs/dmicfg.zip

For the testing we used several older ASUS boards, eg. A7V133 and such,
which all have an Award BIOS.
But we want to use it a the newer boards for real, like A8N-E and such.
I know that there are also some with AMI BIOS, but i guess there are other tools for that.
But maybe dmicfg.exe works there too?

Thanks
old_bill

Posted: **Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:03 pm**

Hi.

Did not you already tried to use tools from the the BNOBTC ?

Inside the BNOBTC there are many tools to modify the DMI in
Asus - Award BIOS, ... , Phoenix AwardBIOS and AMIBIOS mainboards.

e.g.:

BNOBTC 5 archive->

+ Asus\dmicfg\dmicfg16
+ American_Megatrends_Inc\DMIEdit\dmi_editor_v20037
+ ...

Posted: **Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:59 pm**

I too am having trouble writing DMI strings on my Asus motherboard. It's a P5A with Award BIOS.
Lots of tools will read the DMI info but none can write. I am running the Beta v.1011 5 BIOS because it supports large HDDs.
I am comfortable with hex editing, but cannot find any strings in the .awd file, presumably because it;s compressed. I have also opened the binaries using the Award BIOS Editor from Sourceforge but there is no DMI info in there.

Can anyone advise? Can I edit the binaries?
Cheers, Rob

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