Compal NBLB2 - Customer Specific Features; Display of System Type and BIOS Version Number on Boot; CMOS RAM Management; System Management BIOS(SM BIOS) Version 2.4 (DMI 2.0)

NBLB2 Service Manual
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9. Customer Specific Features
9.1 Display of System Type and BIOS Version Number on Boot
BIOS Version V1.00*
Note: * The numbers of BIOS version will be changed.
9.2 CMOS RAM management
For UEFI Code, CMOS just reserve for kernel code/Chipset code, the variable
storage had been replaced by flash part
9.3 System Management BIOS(SM BIOS) version 2.4 (DMI 2.0)
Limited DMI 2.0 BIOS information are provided:
BIOS version number is type 0 data item.
Type 1:
 System serial number – 64 alphanumeric characters with 12-character bundle
number
 System manufacturer name – 16 alphanumeric characters
 System product name – 32 alphanumeric characters
 System version – 32 alphanumeric characters
 UUID – 32 Hexadecimal numbers
Type 2:
 System manufacturer name – 16 alphanumeric characters
 Motherboard Product name – „NBLB2‟
 System serial number – 64 alphanumeric characters with 12-character bundle
number
Type 3:
 System manufacturer name – 16 alphanumeric character
 System serial number – 64 alphanumeric characters with 12-character bundle
number
 Asset tag number – 128 alphanumeric characters
9.4 EEPROM
There is one EEPROM that is used to store many important system and user data
in the notebook (some data are reserved for future to use)). The size of the
EEPROM is 2K bytes.
The EEPROM map is listing as below:
Name
Offset
Comments
System Serial Number
00h – 1Fh
20h – 3Fh
32 bytes of Serial number.
32 bytes of Bundle number.
Manufacturer name
40h – 4Fh
16 bytes for DMI type 1/2/3
System version
50h – 6Fh
32 bytes of System version for DMI type 1.