On Sunday 25 April 2021 16:06:10 E. Liddell wrote: to find out if I have such a "weird incompatible
BIOS"?
We need a name and version number for the BIOS, I guess. Or else the make and model of the motherboard.
The BIOS name should show up on screen at the beginning of the boot sequence. Version number may be there too, or somewhere in the BIOS configuration screens.
The motherboard's information might be in the BIOS configurator as well, or you might be able to find it by opening the case and checking for information silkscreened on the board itself.
That's the best I can do. We've gone somewhat beyond my areas of expertise here. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure the combination of a 32-bit BIOS and a 64-bit processor is even possible, but it seems like a good idea to rule it out.
E. Liddell
after reboot - the BIOS copied from the boot sequence, and from digging through the BIOS itself
ASUS P5GC-VM ACPI BIOS revision 2007 AMI BIOS 0407 build date 09/22/08
I can't find anything else (so far) from digging round in my system info, but maybe I don't know where to look.
Bill
P.S. However, I did just discover this nifty little command, lshw, and here is the output. (There's actually much more information, but it isn't pertinent to the CPU and motherboard.)
lshw <hostname> description: Desktop Computer product: System Product Name (To Be Filled By O.E.M.) vendor: System manufacturer version: Rev 1.xx serial: SYS-1234567890 width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=1 family=To Be Filled By O.E.M. sku=To Be Filled By O.E.M. uuid=60770470-8DFE-D511-9F64-001D607F8E50 *-core description: Motherboard product: P5GC-VM vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. physical id: 0 version: Rev x.xx serial: MS1C79B00G03073 slot: To Be Filled By O.E.M. *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: American Megatrends Inc. physical id: 0 version: 0407 date: 09/22/2008 size: 64KiB capacity: 512KiB capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int