Mark Lewis wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 CA> I don't like editing the registry and _really_ don't like
 CA> messing with BIOS settings.

 ML> i understand that... however, the DMI thingy is nothing more than a
 ML> switch to clear it... the machine will rebuild it on the next
 ML> bootup...

I've wondered about that...

Where does that information get written?  Seems to me that one choice of
settings I tried on one machine had the result of that stuff getting
updated on every boot,  and that can't be good.

 CA> Some years ago (over a decade) a helpline person for Gateway
 CA> gave me access to _engineering_ software to change the BIOS on
 CA> a Gateway. Thinking I knew what I was doing I totally disabled
 CA> that system and never did get it going again after that. :-\

 ML> ouch... i remember that some Gateways and HPs have an option in the
 ML> DMI area to view the DMI error log, too...

I think I remember running across this once. Might've been on a Compaq,  though.

 ML> at least, i'm pretty sure that it is the DMI stuff that i'm
 ML> thinking of...

Or something.  :-)

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