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The BIOS Identification String is used to uniquely the revision of the BIOS being used on ther server. The string is formatted as follows:
BoardFamilyID.OEMID.MajorRev.MinorRev.BuildID.BuildDateTime
Where :
- BoardFamilyID = String name for the board family (E.g. S5000PSL, S5000PAL)
- OEMID = 3 character OEM ID. "86B" is used for Intel servers
- MajorRev = 2 decimal digits
- MinorRev = 2 decimal digits
- BuildID = 4 decimal digits
- BuildDateTime = Build date & time in MMDDYYYYHHMM format
- MM = Two digit month
- DD = Two digit day of month
- YYYY = Four digit year
- HH = Two digit hour using 24 hour clock
- MM = two digit minute
For example, the following BIOS ID string is displayed during POST for BIOS build 3 for the S5000PSL that is generated on December 1, 2008 at 12:00 AM. The string would show as :
S5000PSL.86B.01.00.0003.120120081200
This applies to:
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