| Added support for Intel Nehalem architecture processors. These include the
Xeon MP (Beckton), Xeon DP (Gainestown),
Core 2 Extreme (Bloomfield), Core 2 Quad (Lynnfield), Core 2 Duo (Havendale),
Mobile Core 2 Quad (Clarksfield), Mobile Core 2 Duo (Auburndale). |
| Added support for the Intel Xeon MP (Dunnington) and corrected 3 and 6 core support in general.
Reworked overview page layout for systems with more than 8 cores. |
| Added the panel to report known Bluetooth devices.
Currently only the Microsoft Bluetooth stack is supported. |
| Added support for AMD Opteron (Shanghai), Phenom (Deneb),
(Propos), (Regor), Turion (Lion) and (Griffin) processors. |
| Added support for Intel Atom (Diamondville) processors and improved (Silverthorne) reporting. |
| Added support for VIA Nano (Isaiah) processors, improved C3 (Nehemiah) and C7 (Esther) support. |
| Improved Fintek F71882F and Winbond W83627THF LPC I/O based sensor reporting. |
| Enhanced the [Network] pages to allow for several thousand systems being in the same domain.
Please send me feedback if you have a network with few thousand systems. |
| Extended -save to add -save=[hardware] to just save hardware information and [network] sub-items such as -save=[cpus][nodes]. |
| Version 3.30 released on 28-Apr-2008 |
| Added initial support for Intel Atom (Silverthorne) processors. |
| Added Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2000 (Yonah) series processor support. |
| Improved support for AMD Phenom, Mobile AMD-K6-2+ and AMD-K6-III+ processors.
| | Added initial Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 support, the Intel A100 (Stealey) series of processors. |
| Corrected Intel 80386 and 80486 processor support. |
|
| Version 3.29 released on 14-Feb-2008 |
| Updated SIV for Windows Server 2008 RTM and Windows Vista SP1 RTM. |
| Updated to use Windows Vista SP1 WDK (6001.18000) for the SIV Drivers. |
| Update for the latest (December 2007)
Intel® Processor Identification and CPUID Instruction application note (AP-485). |
| Restored sensor reporting for the Winbond W83781D and similar
sensors that do not have an LPC I/O interface. |
|
| Version 3.28 released on 14-Jan-2008 |
| Added initial support for the Intel X48, 5400A and 5400B Chipsets. |
| Added the [Mapping] page which shows the mappings from Disk Drives to Volumes. |
| Added persistent -DELL and -NODELL qualifiers to Enable and Disable use of the Dell BIOS
Sensor interface. The default state is -NODELL. |
| Improved reporting of Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2218 (Santa Rosa), Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 (Trinidad) and similar CPUs. |
|
| Version 3.27 released on 14-Dec-2007 |
| Updated the -SAVE file to include the match names and added lots of new match names
to allow better selection of information. |
| Updated [Sensors] to allow for fans stopping, added specific support for several
motherboards and changed -MONITOR to use the CPU VID and DTS when supported. |
| Added the [Wi-Fi] page to dynamically lists the Wi-Fi SSID, Signal Strength,
Channel, Frequency, Radio Type, Authentication, Cipher and MAC Address. Note that
on Windows XP systems the
Wireless LAN API for Windows XP Service Pack 2 hotfix needs to be installed and
your host adapter driver need to support Native Wi-Fi. |
| Enhanced the [Adapters] page to dynamically update. More information
is reported if SIV fails to start it's device driver service. |
|
| Version 3.26 released on 14-Nov-2007 |
| Updated [Machine] for the SMBIOS V2.6a Preliminary Standard and to
improve the ASUS P5WD2-Premium PCI/PCI Express slot usage decode. |
| Updated the Dell BIOS based Fan Speed and Temperature reporting to work with more systems. |
| Improved the [System] page's reporting of nVidia Graphics Cards. |
| Corrected the [Monitor] page's reporting of large screen sizes. |
| Enhanced the Windows 2000 [USB Bus] support to create the missing HCDn definitions for USB2 Root Hubs. |
|
| Version 3.25 released on 14-Oct-2007 |
| Added support for the AMD Opteron X4 (Barcelona) and improved the AMD Phenom processor reporting. |
| Improved Intel Core 2 (Penryn), (Wolfdale), (Yorkfield) and Intel Xeon (Harpertown) reporting. |
| Added support for the SMSC LPC47B397, SCH5307 and SCH5317 sensor chips that are used on many HP systems. |
| Added support for Dell BIOS based Fan Speed and Temperature reporting. Thankyou to Christian Diefer for the interface details. |
| Support added for the nVIDIA nForce 680i SLI (C55XE) and improved for the Intel X38 and 3200 chipsets. |
| Corrected Windows NT4 support for removable disks to prevent popups when no disk is loaded and the [HotFix] information. |
|
| Version 3.24 released on 14-Sep-2007 |
| Added initial support for AMD Phenom X4 (Agena) and X2 (Kuma) processors. |
| Added support for the Intel Itanium 2 (Montvale) and corrected CPU speed display for Montecito. |
| Added dynamic update of the Memory Speed for DDR, DDR2, DDR3 and RDRAM based systems. |
| Updated support for Windows Server 2008 and validated SIV on the x64 Enterprise Edition. |
| Added LPC I/O configuration reporting and improved support for ITE IT8716F environment controller. |
|
| Version 3.23 released on 14-Aug-2007 |
| Added support for the Intel Xeon MP 7300 (Tigerton) and Core2 Mobile T7100 series of CPUs. |
| Added support for the Intel E8500, E8501, PM965 and GM965
PCI Express chipsets and the nVidia nForce 5. |
| Reworked CPU speed calculation for faster start-up on systems with multiple CPUs. |
| Added [DbgPrintEx] to allow the Current and Permanent DbgPrintEx Filters to be changed. |
| Updated the [SMART] code to optionally use IRP_MJ_SCSI Driver Internal I/O Controls which can be enabled with the
-SCSI start-up qualifier. If you have disk drives that the [SMART] page is unable to read the SMART information
from using this facility may resolve the issue. The problem is usually caused by bugs in the PATA/SATA host controller driver.
I have found that Microsoft and Intel drivers usually work. If you see a problem and are in a position to resolve the
issue with the problem driver please contact me and I will happily work with you to achieve this. |
|
| Version 3.22 released on 14-Jul-2007 |
| Added support for the Intel Celeron E400 and
Pentium Dual-Core E2000 sequence processors. |
| Added [Processors] and -SAVE=[Processors] to report/save the System Processor configuration. |
| Added [Battery] page to report the battery status and configuration. |
| Improved support for the Intel G35, P35, Q35, X38 North bridges
which are used with the ICH9 South Bridge, the
Intel E7525, E7520 North bridges and the 6300ESB South Bridge.
Improved the reporting of AMD Athlon, Opteron, Sempron and Turion NPT Family Processors.
Corrected the memory size reported for Windows Vista systems with more than 6GB of memory. |
|
| Version 3.21 released on 07-Jun-2007 |
| Added initial support for the Intel Core 2 (Penryn), (Wolfdale), (Ridgefield), (Yorkfield) and Intel Xeon (Harpertown) 45nm CPUs. |
| Improved the Network [CPUs] page reporting of Intel Core 2 processors. |
| Add reporting of the ITE IT8712F, IT8716F and IT8718F sensor chip version and improved the Fan Speeds reported. |
| Added the [Disk SMART] page that reports Disk Drive status information. This is currently only for SATA and PATA drives, SCSI will be added in future. |
| Added initial support for the Intel G35, P35, Q35, X38 and ICH9 Chipsets. |
| Added [DIMMs] and -SAVE=[DIMMs] to report/save information on the System Identity and the Memory DIMM configuration. |
| Extended -MONITOR mode logging to also log the current System Physical Memory, Paging File and File Cache usage. |
| [SIV website]
updated to http://rh-software.com/ |
|
| Version 3.20 released on 24-Feb-2007 |
| Added the VeriSign Digital Signatures that are needed to use
the SIV Driver on Windows Vista x64 Editions. |
| Added AMD Athlon 64 (Brisbane) and
Intel Core 2 Duo X7800 (Merom XE) processor support. |
|
| Version 3.19 released on 14-Dec-2006 |
| Validated Windows Vista V6.00 Build 6000 support.
Updated [PCI Dev] and [Devices] for registry changes. |
| Added Intel Core 2 (Conroe) E6850, E6750 and E6650 processor support. |
| Added Winbond W83627DHG sensor support and corrected W83627EHG Fan 4 divisor. |
| Added reporting of PCI Vital Product Data and
PCI Express Maximum and Negotiated Link Speed and Width (Lanes). |
| Added reporting of SMX Safer Mode Extensions.
Corrected size reporting for Dual Channel Asymetric memory on Intel PCI Express chipsets.
Reworked the PCI Express reporting to allow for PCIEXBAR being co-mapped with memory
on some systems with more than 3.5GB of memory. |
|
| Version 3.18 released on 14-Nov-2006 |
| Added Intel Core 2 Quad (Kentsfield) and Intel Xeon Quad Core (Clovertown) support. |
| Updated to include the System Management BIOS V2.5 additions. |
| Updated the PCI Bridge information to include the Memory Mapped I/O ranges. |
| Corrected Pentium D (Presler and Cedar Mill) to report Socket T LGA-775. |
|
| Version 3.17 released on 14-Oct-2006 |
| Added [Busy CPUs] that runs an Idle Priority thread on each CPU thereby causing all the CPUs to be 100% Busy. |
| Added [CPU Usage] that shows the Current User, Kernel, DPC and Interupt % CPU per Processor and for the System. |
| Renamed the Registry menu to Machine to better reflect it's contents and it being the Right-Press menu for [Machine]. |
| Added support for Intel Xeon 7000 (Tulsa) and AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile (Taylor) processors. |
| Use High Resolution Performance Counters for [Cache] pages to guarantee accurate times. |
| Enhanced the Intel Core 2 and Intel Core temperature reporting to read the Tj(Max) reference from the CPU. |
| Added support for separate L2 Code and L2 Data Caches. |
| Corrected Intel Itanium 2 DC (Montecito) Core and Logical processor reporting. |
| Updated [Machine] to fix crash on Advent Series
and to compensate for badly formed SMBios on MS-6330 motherboards. |
|
| Version 3.16 released on 14-Sep-2006 |
| Added [Smart Cards] to display active Smart Card Reader information. |
| Updated Processor Number reporting for Intel Core 2 Duo (Allendale). |
| Added PCI-X 266 and PCI-X 533 device reporting. |
| Added [F/W Table] to show the IA-64 Firmware Interface Table. Added SAL_A and SAL_B version display. |
| Updated [Machine] to prevent SIV crashing in exceptional circumstances. |
| Updated [MSRs AMD] to prevent lockup of AMD Athlon Model 10 (Barton) caused by reading MSR 0xC0010117. |
| Corrected FSB Multipliers for AMD Athlon Model 10 (Barton). |
|
| Version 3.15 released on 14-Aug-2006 |
| Improve Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 support.
Added manifest to enable SIV to use SIVDRIVER by default.
Corrections are [RegEdt] initial key, [Monitor] Descriptions,
and more. |
| Added Intel Core 2 Extreme (Conroe) and Intel Xeon Dual Core (Sossaman) reporting and Engineering Sample recognition. |
| Added Intel Itanium 2 DC (Montecito) support, improved and corrected existing Itanium and Itanium 2 reporting. |
| Added Intel Core 2 and Intel Core Digital Thermal Sensor (DTS) based Temperature reporting. |
| Enhanced Menus for remote system information panels and added consistent sub-menus. |
| Enhanced [Cache Latency] for caches of size 2^N * 1.5 (1.5MB, 3.0MB, 6.0MB, etc.). |
| Improved Intel i965 (Northbridge) and ICH8 (Southbridge) chipset support. |
|
| Version 3.14 released on 14-Jul-2006 |
| Added reporting of the Windows Vista Edition, Home, Business, Ultimate, etc.. |
| Added ToolTips to clarify the information SIV shows and what action will result from a button press. |
| Improved Intel Core 2 (Conroe) and (Merom) reporting.
Added Intel Xeon (Woodcrest) and (Clovertown) support. |
| Added [PCMCIA], [ACPI] and [Monitors] pages. |
| Added View Menus to the Edit sub-menu that shows a summary of the currently available menus. |
| Updated [Volumes] to open the Drive and Path using Explorer and added a separate Eject icon and ToolTips. |
| Added [Drive A:] through to [Drive Z:] pages to display file system statistics. |
| Added Intel i965 (Northbridge) and ICH8 (Southbridge) chipset support. |
| Improved the reporting of the CPU speed and voltage for Intel Core, Core 2, Pentium D, Pentium 4 and Xeon processors. |
| Added [MSR UPD] to show MSR values as they change and have enhanced
all the MSR display pages to allow selection of the CPU. |
| Updated the [Devices] and [PCI Devs] to correct the Maker and Description on Windows Vista. |
|
| Version 3.13 released on 14-Jun-2006 |
| Added support for AMD Socket AM2 and Socket F processors and DRAM controllers. |
| Added [SW Keys] and enhanced the [System] and [Install] panels to display Windows Product Keys. |
| Added switches to control if Windows Product Keys are shown (-KEYS) or hidden (-NOKEYS). The default is hidden. |
| Improved reporting of overclocked Pentium D 805 processors. |
| Corrected the [Domains] page to show only Domains for some foreign installations. |
| Enhanced the [Features] page to report Asymmetries on Multi-Processor systems. |
| Improved the USB display for vendor specific class with Multiple Interfaces or Alternate settings. |
|
| Version 3.12 released on 14-May-2006 |
| Added System Power Capabilities information page. |
| Added initial support for Intel Core 2 (Conroe) processor. |
| Added reporting on Windows Media Center and Tablet PC variants and also Windows 2003 Server R2. |
| Added [Remove SIV] page. This page facilitates the removal of the SIV Driver Service and the SIV Registry Keys. |
| Added -NODRIVER qualifier to allow SIV to run without using it's kernel mode driver. |
| Improved [Modems] for Broadband and ISDN connections. |
| Improved [S/W Name], [S/W Date] and [Hotfixs] pages to allow for more installed packages. |
| Corrected [Routing] for long DNS names and Windows repaint issue. |
|
| Version 3.11 released on 04-Apr-2006 |
| Updated for Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo including the processor numbers. |
| Added the motherboard Maker and Model to the initial information. |
| Added System Paging file infornation display page. |
| Improved reporting for dual CPU systems that have an AMD Athlon with an AMD Duron. |
| Added Mutex Interlocks
to synchronsize access to the Sensors and SMBus. |
| Improved Dutch translation. |
|
| Version 3.10 released on 18-Feb-2006 |
| CPU Logos updated to use the new Intel Logos for new CPUs. |
| Added new CPU cache sizes and steppings. |
|
| Version 3.09 released on 14-Dec-2005 |
| [PCI Bus] enhanced to show Bridged Bus numbers and added support for the Intel i975X chipset. |
| Corrected the [All Devices] and [PCI Devices] pages for non-English Windows instalations. |
|
| Version 3.08 released on 14-Nov-2005 |
| Pentium D (Presler), Pentium 4 (Cedarmill) and Pentium M (Yonah) support added. |
| Default font changed to be Font: Tahoma Weight: 400 Point size: 9 to give better inter language interoperability. |
| Changed to initially use English.
Added Czech, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian,
Slovak, Slovenian and Turkish language support.
Improved existing translations.
Please E-Mail
me with any further corrections and/or offers to help with the translation to additional languages. |
| Added ToolTips that indicate HTTP: and MAILTO: targets. |
|
| Version 3.07 released on 16-Oct-2005 |
| Sempron 64 (Palermo E6) and Pentium D Xeon (Paxville) support added. |
| Network panels enhanced with the addition of a [Filter] panel to allow filtering by Server Type
and by Node Name. Node Names matched by the Primary list are always included,
those matched by the Include list are included unless matched by the Exclude list. |
| Initial support added for Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Latin, Klingon, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Spanish, Vulcan, Swedish and Welsh.
The more technical pages in SIV will only be in English. I have used Franglais/Dinglish/etc. when expedient.
Please note I am a Software Engineer, not a Linguist, so the translations are likely need improvement. |
| [COM Size] enhanced to add the editing of the button labels and message text. The C convention of \r and \n are supported. |
|
| Version 3.06 released on 24-Sep-2005 |
| Added Windows Vista reporting and validated SIV on the Beta 1 release (Build 5112). |
| [TCP Ports] and [UDP Ports] now show DNS names and for Windows XP SP2 and later the image name. |
| Enhanced [Routing] to add a sub-net Ping page. The [Ping] typically takes 4 seconds for 254 IP addresses. |
| Added Windows System File Cache and Feature Flag reporting. |
| [PCI Bus] added AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 HyperTransport Technology, Address Map and DRAM Controller support. |
| Enhanced Dual Core Opteron and Athlon 64 reporting. |
| [PCI Bus] added Intel E7230 and AMD 64 DRAM Host Bridge chipset support. |
| Added facility to find USB descriptor strings. Note: doing this will cause some USB devices to fail ! |
|
| Version 3.05 released on 14-Jul-2005 |
| Added reporting of Windows
, accessed via the File menu. |
| Added periodic logging of [Sensor] information when SIV is used in -MONITOR mode. Improved Winbond W83627THF support. |
| Added latest Athlon 64 and Opteron steppings |
| Added reporting of both WOW32 and WOW64 Startup programs for Windows x64 systems. |
| [PCI Bus] improved i955X, i945P and i945G chipset support, corrected memory speed reporting. |
| Added support for setting FTDI USB to Serial converter speed configuration, accessed via the [COM Ports] panel. |
| Added facility to read USB descriptor strings. Note: requesting invalid strings will cause some USB devices to fail ! |
|
| Version 3.04 released on 19-Jun-2005 |
Added Context Menus and the SIV  Cursor. |
| Added AMD Athlon X2 support and updated AMD Athlon and Opteron Code Names. |
| Added the display of the CPU Logo, Windows Logo and Chipset Logo along with their sounds. |
| For Windows x64 Editions added
and
registry awareness. |
| [PCI Bus] added support for i945G chipset and improved i955X chipset support. |
| [CPUs] and [System] added display of the physical memory. |
| [PCI Bus] added support for more than 32 buses by using the Secondary and Subordinate Bus Numbers. |
| [Setup Log] added the ability to configure the Windows Setup API logging levels. |
| [Sensors] added support for Winbond W83627EHG and improved W83627EHF reporting. |
| [MCH] improved the reporting of Performance Acceleration Technology for i875 and i865 chipsets. |
|
| Version 3.03 released on 16-May-2005 |
| EM64T and AMD64 support added for
and
. |
| [PCI Bus] added Intel ICH7, 6300ESB and 955X. Improved existing PCI Express chipset support. |
|
| Version 3.02 released on 07-Apr-2005 |
| [PCI Bus] added Intel E8500 and E7221. Improved existing PCI Express chipset support. |
| [Modems] corrected Accvio which occurred on some systems. |
| [Features] added Execute Disable bit (XD) reporting. |
| Pentium D 800 (Smithfield) support added (Dual Core). |
| Pentium 4 Xeon (Irwindale) support added. |
| Intel Processor Number display for Mobile systems improved. |
|
| Version 3.01 released on 14-Feb-2005 |
| Pentium 4 600 (2MB Cache) support added. |
| Mobile Intel 915 chipset support added and enhanced 915, 925, E7520 and E7525 support. |
| VMX Virtual Machine Extension reporting added. |
|
| Version 3.00 released on 16-Jan-2005 |
| [Network] pages much faster for large networks and for slow responses the delay time is displayed. |
| [Cache Latency] information page added thanks to
. |
| [Mail SIV] now includes the SIV system summary in the message. |
| [PCI Bus] now supports PCI Express for Intel 915, 925, E7520 and E7525 chipsets. |
| [Joysticks] report page added. |
| Dynamic update of Processor (CPU) and System Bus (FSB) speeds added. |
| SIV driver startup issue with Bart PE resolved. |
| -SAVE output format can now to specified with -CSV and -TSV qualifiers. |
| Pentium 4F, Pentium 4J and AMD Sempron support added. |
|
| Version 2.11 released on 14-Jul-2004 |
| [IP Address] page added to show Network IP addresses and Adapters. |
| [Adapters] systems Network Adapters and [Interface] active network interfaces added. |
| [Counters] current TCP, UCP, IP and ICMP counters added. |
| [ARP Table] current IP to MAC address mappings and [Routing] IP routing table added. |
| [TCP Ports] active TCP Ports and [UDP Ports] active UDP Ports added. |
| [Modems] page enhanced to show peak and current transfer rates. |
| [Drives] page added that shows Disk, CD-ROM and Tape drives. |
| [Geometry] page added that shows Disk Geometry. |
| [Volumes] page now displays Available space in addition to Free space. |
| [Prev] and [Next] facility added, use of system menus extended. |
| Pentium 4E Xeon (Nocona) and Pentium M (Dothan) support added. |
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