AMIBIOS8_1B_Utils - The source code produces TWO different AMIBIOS 1B module utilities, ami_1b_splitter and ami_1b_combiner. The utilities produced by the source code. NORCROSS, Ga. And TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), a leader in BIOS and computing innovations, announced the launch of Aptio® V, the.
Number of employees 1000+ worldwide Website American Megatrends Incorporated ( AMI) is an American and company, specializing in hardware. The company was founded in 1985. Shankar was appointed chairman and president in 2011. It is headquartered in Building 200 at 5555 Oakbrook Parkway in, near the city of.
The company started as a manufacturer of complete, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer was PCs Ltd, later known as Computers, making one of the first designs. As hardware activity moved progressively to -based, AMI continued to develop BIOS firmware for major motherboard manufacturers. The company produced BIOS software for motherboards (1986), server motherboards (1992), storage (1995) and remote-management cards (1998). In 1993 AMI produced MegaRAID, a storage which major (including HP and Dell) adopted. AMI sold its RAID-division assets to in 2001. As of 2011 AMI continued to focus on OEM business and technology.
Its product line includes AMIBIOS (a ), Aptio (a successor to AMIBIOS8 based on the standard), diagnostic software, remote-access firmware, motherboards, backplane controllers, driver/firmware development, service processors, iNAS and SAN storage systems for, and 'solutions' for the operating system. Contents. Products AMIBIOS Table of diagnostic beep codes compiled by AMI BIOS during Number of beeps Meaning 1 power-on self test successful 2 Parity error in the first 64 of RAM 3 Memory failure in the first 64 KiB of RAM 4 Same as 3, but also including a non-functional timer 1 5 CPU error 6 Error in the on the 8042 keyboard controller chip 7 Generation of a CPU virtual mode exception signifying an error 8 Read/write error when accessing system 9 Mismatch between the calculated checksum of the ROM firmware and the expected value hardcoded into the firmware. 10 Read/write error for the CMOS NVRAM shutdown register 11 A fault in the AMIBIOS (also written as AMI BIOS) is the -compatible developed and sold by American Megatrends since 1986. As of 1994, the company claimed that 75% of used the AMIBIOS.
It is used on made by AMI and by other companies. A chip containing an old version AMIBIOS image, pulled from an ECS motherboard American Megatrends has a strict OEM business model for AMIBIOS: it sells source code to motherboard manufacturers or customizes AMIBIOS for each OEM individually, whichever business model they require.
AMI does not sell to end users, and itself produces no end-user documentation or technical support for its BIOS firmware, leaving that to licensees. However, the company published two books on its BIOS in 1993 and 1994, (listed in ), written by its engineers. During powerup, the BIOS firmware displays an ID string in the lower-left-hand corner of the screen. This ID string comprises various pieces of information about the firmware, including when it was compiled, what configuration options were selected, the OEM license code, and the targeted chipset and motherboard. There are 3 ID string formats, the first for older AMIBIOS, and the second and third for the newer AMI Hi-Flex ('high flexibility') BIOS. These latter are displayed when the Insert key is pressed during power-on self-test. The original AMI BIOS did not encrypt the machine startup password, which it stored in non-volatile RAM.
Therefore, any utility capable of reading a PC's NVRAM was able to read and to alter the password. The AMI WinBIOS encrypts the stored password, using a simple. By pressing the during power-on self-test when a prompt is displayed, the BIOS setup utility program is invoked. Some earlier AMIBIOS versions also included a cut-down version of the AMIDIAG utility that AMI also sold separately, but most later AMI BIOSes do not include this program as the BIOS already incorporates detailed diagnostics. AMIBIOS is only sold through distributors, not directly to end users. Firmware upgrades and replacements are only available from AMI for its own motherboards. Upgrades and replacements for AMIBIOS customized for a motherboard are only available from the manufacturer or from eSupport.
AMI supplies both DOS and firmware upgrade utilities for its own motherboards. ESupport only supplies a Win32 upgrade utility. AMIDiag AMIDiag is a family of PC diagnostic utilities sold to only. The AMIDiag Suite was introduced in 1991 and made available for, and platforms. It includes both the Windows and DOS PC diagnostics programs. Later versions of AMIDiag support UEFI, which allows diagnostics to be performed directly on the hardware components, without having to use operating system drivers or facilities.
StorTrends/ManageTrends The family of network-based backup and storage management software and hardware includes several NAS and iSCSI-based SAN servers with 4, 12, or 16 drive bays. AMI couples off-the-shelf hardware with the StorTrends iTX storage management firmware platform.
StorTrends offers synchronous, asynchronous and snap-assisted replication, high-availability grouping and advanced caching. Reliability and performance is the key for any storage server. StorTrends iTX 2.8 is designed to support Storage Bridge Bay specification that provide Auto- capability to ensure that any interruption is handled without affecting data. It supports, redundancy, scalability, replication, disaster recovery and multiple site backups. DuOS-M Dual OS Environment for Microsoft Windows American Megatrends Initial release July 2014. 1.0.4.5135, Website DuOS-M was commercial software developed by American Megatrends for -based computers using the to provide a 'dual operating system' environment in which the user can simultaneously deploy the operating system in tandem with Microsoft Windows.
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Because DuOS-M has capability to run both Windows and Android operating systems at the same time, the user can switch between the two operating systems without having to or suspend operation of one operating system in order to utilize the other. DuOS-M supports key hardware in Windows including cameras, audio, microphone and sensors such as ambient light sensor, and orientation sensors. It also supports various screen sizes, resolutions, and screen orientation (portrait and landscape) along with 3D acceleration and HD video playback. The first version of DuOS-M was released in June 2014. The software is available for download for a free 30-day trial, and is available for purchase for a complete license. On March 7, 2018, American Megatrends officially announced that it ceased development of DuOS-M. No further updates were being released at this time, including bug fixes and security patches.
Technical problems On November 13, 1993, a number of PCs that used the AMIBIOS firmware started at boot-up to play the tune to Happy Birthday repeatedly while halting the computer until a key was pressed. The problem was resolved with a -free firmware upgrade from most manufacturers. The AMI WinBIOS was a 1994 update to AMIBIOS, with a setup screen that mimicked the appearance of Windows 3.1 and supported navigation, unusual at the time. WinBIOS was viewed favourably by Anand Lal Shimpi at, but described by Thomas Pabst at Tom's Hardware as a 'big disappointment', in part because of problems with distributing IRQ signals to every PCI and ISA expansion slot. In July 2008 Linux developers discovered issues with ACPI tables on certain AMIBIOS BIOSes supplied by Foxconn, ASUS, and MSI.
The problem is related to the ACPI OSI method, which is used by ACPI to determine the OS version (in case an ACPI patch only applies to one specific OS). In some cases, the OSI method caused problems on Linux systems, skipping code that was only executed on Windows systems. Foxconn and AMI worked together to develop a solution, which was included in later revisions of AMIBIOS. The issue affected motherboards with Intel Socket 775. Actual system behavior differed based on BIOS version, system hardware.
Founding. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged. ( October 2011) American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) was founded in 1985 by Subramonian Shankar and Pat Sarma with funds from a previous consulting venture, Access Methods Inc.
Access Methods was a company run by Pat Sarma and his partner. After Access Methods successfully launched the AMIBIOS, there were legal issues among the owners of the company, resulting in Sarma buying out his partners. Access Methods still owned the rights to the AMIBIOS. Sarma had already started a company called Quintessential Consultants Inc. (QCI), and later set up an equal partnership with Shankar. By this time the AMIBIOS had become established and there was a need to keep the initials AMI. The partners renamed QCI as American Megatrends Inc., with the same initials as Access Methods Inc.; the renamed company then purchased AMIBIOS from Access Methods.
Shankar became the president and Sarma the executive vice-president of this company. This partnership continued until 2001, when LSI Logic purchased the RAID Division of American Megatrends; American Megatrends then purchased all shares of the company owned by Sarma, making Shankar the majority owner. Worldwide offices.
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AMI Motherboard Identification Utility, BIOS flash utility Copyright 2010 American Megatrends, Inc. All rights reserved. AFUDOS v4.xx AFUDOS is a BIOS update utility, also referred to as a 'BIOS flash utility', with a command line interface for MS-DOS. The target board MUST use AMIBIOS Core 7.xx or AMIBIOS8. Older AMIBIOS systems support the AMIFLASH.COM program. This utility offers the following features:. Small executable file size.
Quickly update. Clear updating information and status. Fully compatible with AFUDOS 3.xx command structure Supported Operating System.
DOS environment (MS-DOS, FreeDOS.) Getting Started: Copy the AFUDOS.EXE executable file to any storage location accessible by the host system and then run AFUDOS in command prompt. Basic Usage: AFUDOS ROMFILE.ROM /P /C. Program main BIOS image, reset CMOS to defaults AFUDOS ROMFILE.ROM /P /B /N /C. Program main BIOS image & bootblock image. Reset CMOS and NVRAM to defaults AFUWIN v4.xx AFUWIN is an updating system BIOS utility with command line and GUI interface. It has same command line parameters and behavior as AFUDOS plus a simple graphical interface.
The target board MUST use AMIBIOS Core 7.xx or AMIBIOS8. Older AMIBIOS systems support the AMIFLASH.COM program, which works in MS-DOS. AFUWIN Utility is supported in following operating systems:. Microsoft?Windows?2000 (32bit & 64bit editions).
Microsoft?Windows?NT 4.0. Microsoft?Windows?Vista (32bit & 64bit editions) Operating System Driver Requirements:. UCOREVXD.VXD Driver for Microsoft?Windows?98/ME. UCORESYS.SYS Driver for Microsoft?Windows?NT/2000/XP/PE/Vista (32bit).
UCOREW64.SYS Driver for Microsoft?Windows?XP64 & Vista (64bit) Getting Started: Copy AFUWIN.EXE, UCOREVXD.VXD, UCORESYS.SYS and UCOREW64.SYS to any storage location accessible by the host system and then run AFUWIN in command prompt. Remember that three files MUST be in same directory. For launching GUI mode, just double-click on AFUWIN.EXE. TO use in command line mode, run AFUWIN.EXE from a Microsoft?Windows?command prompt. Usage & Example for command line mode (AFUDOS & AFUWIN). Note: many of these options are advanced and can harm your system is used incorrectly.
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