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HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

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Reply 900 of 917, by Mumak

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Grzyb wrote on 2025-01-01, 17:40:

My Celeron still pretends to be a Pentium II...

I have uploaded version 6.2.6. Please let me know if it fixes the problem.

Reply 901 of 917, by Grzyb

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Mumak wrote on 2025-01-01, 20:27:

I have uploaded version 6.2.6. Please let me know if it fixes the problem.

Looks OK now...

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Reply 902 of 917, by Mumak

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Thanks for the feedback.

Reply 903 of 917, by zuldan

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HWiNFO for DOS thinks my AWE64 Gold is a PAS.

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Reply 904 of 917, by feipoa

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Has there been any thought to adding a BIOS image copy feature to HWINFO? If you do implement it, an option to save as EVEN/ODD (two file) could be helpful for some people.

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Reply 905 of 917, by Mumak

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zuldan wrote on 2025-03-08, 01:41:

HWiNFO for DOS thinks my AWE64 Gold is a PAS.

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Can you provide the HWiNFO Debug File so I can check it?

Reply 906 of 917, by Mumak

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feipoa wrote on 2025-03-08, 01:53:

Has there been any thought to adding a BIOS image copy feature to HWINFO? If you do implement it, an option to save as EVEN/ODD (two file) could be helpful for some people.

In the past HWiNFO was shipped with small utils to dump some data including BIOS image (but not even/odd). They can be downloaded now here: https://www.hwinfo.com/files/old/

Reply 907 of 917, by zuldan

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Mumak wrote on 2025-03-08, 07:39:

Can you provide the HWiNFO Debug File so I can check it?

Managed to spend some more time on this. It's a very strange bug.

I ran HWiNFO today and it worked perfectly, BUT...

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I then closed the app and ran it again but this time I got the Microsoft Sound System.

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Here is the debug file for when it detected the Microsoft Sound System.

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It's a bit tricky to replicate. I can't do it everytime but when the bug does occur, I go into Mainboard info then Video info and finally Peripherals info. Let me know if you need anything else.

Reply 908 of 917, by Dusko

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Hi, I've been using HWiNFO for as long as I can remember, and I'm really happy it's still being maintained!
That said, I just wanted to report a small bug: HWiNFO reports the Sound Blaster 16 DSP version as 4.4, when it should actually be 4.04.

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Reply 909 of 917, by Mumak

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Dusko wrote on 2025-08-08, 03:38:

Hi, I've been using HWiNFO for as long as I can remember, and I'm really happy it's still being maintained!
That said, I just wanted to report a small bug: HWiNFO reports the Sound Blaster 16 DSP version as 4.4, when it should actually be 4.04.

Thanks, will be fixed in the next version.

Reply 910 of 917, by DarthSun

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HWinfo DOS. RyZen+7900GS+SBLive / Native DOS run.

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Reply 911 of 917, by Mumak

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The DOS version is not designed for such later systems. It intentionally lacks support of these systems to maintain a low footprint.

Reply 912 of 917, by DarthSun

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Mumak wrote on 2025-08-08, 11:41:

The DOS version is not designed for such later systems. It intentionally lacks support of these systems to maintain a low footprint.

Of course, I know, I just added it as an interesting fact that it can detect a few things well even from this.

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Reply 913 of 917, by Grzyb

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It would be nice to provide clear statement about recommended versions for various hardware categories.
Something like:

"for 16-bit CPU - use HWiNFO16
for 32-bit CPU - use HWiNFO for DOS
for 64-bit CPU - use HWiNFO for Windows"

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Reply 914 of 917, by Mumak

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There's no eaxct margin where to use HWiNFO for DOS or HWiNFO32. I'd say:

For 16-bit CPU (8086-286) - Use HWiNFO16
For 32-bit CPU (386+) - Use HWiNFO for DOS; for systems capable running W2k/XP use HWiNFO32 for Windows
For 64-bit CPU - Use HWiNFO64 for Windows
For ARM64 (Windows) - Use HWiNFO ARM64

Reply 915 of 917, by DarthSun

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It runs fine under Win98 on the 7.02 madness machine.

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Reply 916 of 917, by Mumak

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Yes, HWiNFO32 supports Win98 too but you'll usually get better results under Win2k/XP

Reply 917 of 917, by DarthSun

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Yes, a great program!
I have a mania for running the older operating system on the latest computer, which is why I like that it runs on Win98 as well.

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