AMIBIOS (also written as AMI BIOS) is the IBM PC -compatible BIOS developed and sold by American Megatrends since 1986. As of 1994, the company claimed that 75% of PC clones used the AMIBIOS. It is used on motherboards made by AMI and by other companies.
At the heart of every PC lies the system's BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System, the lowest-level piece of software that operates by allowing your hardware and your operating system to work together. For users whose BIOS was built by American Megatrends, you can expect regular updates to the software embedded within your BIOS itself, allowing your computer to function more efficiently. However, these updates come from your motherboard's manufacturer, which is not necessarily American Megatrends. Fortunately, navigating to their website and running their Motherboard Identification Utility can give you all the information you need to proceed. Navigate to the American Megatrends website (see Resources.) Click 'Support' at the top of the page, and then select 'AMIBIOS Support.'
Click on the link titled 'AMI Motherboard Identification Utility.' Choose to 'Download AMIMBID.' If you agree with the presented terms of the license agreement, select 'I Agree.' The software will begin downloading automatically to your default download location. The file size is only 128 KB and should download in less than one minute for most connections.Double-click on the downloaded file, and extract its contents to a folder of your choice. After a few seconds, the 10 files will be unzipped to the file you chose.
Run the 'MBID.exe' file. Choose 'Next' and follow the on-screen prompts as the program determines if your motherboard was created specifically by American Megatrends or by a different manufacturer. The results will be logged to a file named 'Results.txt' within this directory.
Navigate back to the 'AMIBIOS Support' page as you did in Step 1 if it shows that your motherboard was created by American Megatrends. Scroll down the page until you see '3. Select your AMI motherboard from the following list.' Select your motherboard as determined by the results of the Motherboard Identification Utility. On the next screen, look underneath 'Bios Updates.' If the current revision is more recent than your version 2.61, then click on the red highlighted version number, and then click 'I agree' if you agree with the terms of the download. Save the file to a location of your choice, and double-click it to start the process of flashing your BIOS to the newest version.Navigate to the homepage of the motherboard manufacturer listed in the Motherboard Identification Utility if it was shown to come from a different manufacturer than American Megatrends (see Resources.) Though each website's layout will be unique, use the model number from the motherboard information that you have now obtained to navigate to the support section of the website until you find the most recent update to your BIOS.
Download the file and follow the install instructions to flash your BIOS to the newest version.
Number of employees1000+ worldwideWebsiteAmerican Megatrends International ( 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, and in the.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. A chip containing an old version AMIBIOS image, pulled from an ECS motherboardAmerican 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.
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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 direcly 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 WindowsAmerican MegatrendsInitial releaseJuly 2014. 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. Headquarters:,. Field offices:,;,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. Formerly had an office in,See also.
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