Many articles refer to the Sysinternals Coreinfo utility to check whether your system can run Hyper-V on Windows 8 or not. But just this morning I found out that the systeminfo command that is included in Windows provides some additional Hyper-V related information. More Information about Hyper-V on Windows 8 Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” [...]
Archive of posts tagged BIOS
ToolTip: CrystalDMI
The CrystalDMI utility allows you to read DMI (Desktop Management Interface) data. CrystalDMI is FREE and does not require installation. Download is available here More information about DMI can be found here
ToolTip: HWiNFO32
Today’s ToolTip is about HWiNFO32 which is a hardware information and diagnostic tool. I have seen many tools that can collect hardware information but this one gives me an impression of being a well organized utility and most important it’s FREE. I recommend that you download the portable ZIP file as that doesn’t require an [...]
ToolTip: Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool
Windows Virtual PC requires that your hardware supports hardware-assisted virtualization. There are a number of third party utilities around already, but now Microsoft released one as well. It’s called the Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool and can be downloaded from here If you launch the tool manually it will tell you if your system meets the [...]
Accessing the BIOS in Windows Virtual PC
When setting up a Virtual Machine in Windows Virtual PC, You will see the following progress window when the VM is started. This indicates that the VM is running in Enhanced Mode which is the default. To better understand the different modes of Windows Virtual PC I recommend reading the “Three Modes of Windows XP [...]
Intel AMT in action
For those of you who do have vPro capable machines in their environment, but never had the chance to take a closer look at the AMT features, this blog post might be of interest. For most people I assume the biggest hurdle to start using the AMT technology is that you need a System Management [...]
What happens before the OS loads
Ever wondered what actually happens when you turn on your PC before it loads the operating system ? Watch this video with Jamie Schwartz, Development Lead, Windows Kernel Dev team, and Andrew Ritz, Development Manager, Windows Kernel Dev team. Windows Vista PreOS Environment: What happens before the OS loads
vPro colors in BIOS
When remotely accessing the system BIOS of a HP Compaq dc7800 desktop machine using vPro, the BIOS appears in black and white as shown in the picture below: to get the native BIOS colors you must configure the terminal emulator mode to ANSI then, the BIOS will appear with colors as if you were sitting [...]
BIOS Boot delay on VMWARE
Ever had that issue that you wanted to enter the VMWARE BIOS, but you simply don’t made it because the VMWARE session boots too fast ? Add the following line to your *.vmx file. bios.bootDelay = “3000″ http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1201¨
Automate BIOS configuration for HP clients
Today the following options exist to automate BIOS configuration for HP clients:The Client Management Interface allows you to use WSH to retrieve and set BIOS settings like in the example below which changes the Ownership Tag. Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 16 Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = 32 lFlags = wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly strService = “winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=impersonate}//” strComputer = “.” [...]
