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- 11/14/2007
Version 5.34 of the ASTRA has been released
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New in the version 5.34:
- - Improved multiprocessor support
- Added detection of CD/DVD device physical interface type (ATAPI, Serial ATAPI,
SCSI, USB, Fibre Channel, IEEE)
- Added detection of DVD-RW DL, HD DVD-R DL,
HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL read features
- Added reading of SPD information on
Intel Tolapai processor
- Added detection of Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Tigerton),
Intel Dual-Core Xeon (Tigerton), Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile, Intel Pentium Dual-Core
Mobile (Merom), Intel Celeron (Conroe-L/Merom-L), AMD Embedded Opteron, AMD Athlon
64 X2 (Tyler), AMD Turion 64 X2 (Hawk, Griffin) processors
- Added detection
of new processors features: x2APIC Architecture, AMD SSE5A Extensions
- Added
$DAY$, $MONTH$ and $YEAR$ macros support in batch mode
- Added PCI devices
dump and CPU dump at the end of the text report
- Fixed program hang-up during
S.M.A.R.T. test on some HDD
- Fixed reading of SPD information on some memory
modules
- Updated program database - 11/12/2007
Version 1.55 of the ASTRA32
for Windows has been released. Click
here
to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.
- 07/24/2007
Version 5.33 of the ASTRA has been released
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New in the version 5.33:
- - Added support of SMBIOS 2.6a
preliminary standard
- Added detection of L3 cache size and parameters on
AMD processors
- Added detection of new processors features: AMD SKINIT, STGI,
DEV Supported, AMD Watchdog Timer, AMD 1-GB Large Page
- Fixed program slowdown
during DMI/SMBIOS test (if program run from a floppy disk)
- Fixed detection
of Intel Pentium family processors
- Fixed detection of cache associativity
on AMD processors
- Updated program database - 07/24/2007
Version 1.54 of the ASTRA32
for Windows has been released. Click
here
to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.
- 05/30/2007
Version 5.32 of the ASTRA has been released
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New in the version 5.32:
- - Added detection of High Definition
Audio codec name
- Added detection of SCSI and USB CD/DVD devices
- Improved
detection of ATAPI devices
- Added calculation of memory module's manufacture
date
- Added reading of SPD information on VIA CX700 south bridge
- Added
detection of monitor aspect ratio
- Added detection of Intel Quad-Core Xeon
(Penryn), Intel Core 2 Extreme (Yorkfield), Intel Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield), Intel
Core 2 Duo (Wolfdale), Intel Pentium (Conroe), Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile,
Intel Celeron M (Conroe-L, Merom-L), Intel A1xx, AMD Opteron (Barcelona, Budapest),
AMD Phenom FX, AMD Phenom X4, AMD Phenom X2, AMD Athlon X2, AMD Sempron (Spica),
AMD Turion 64 X2 (Trinidad), AMD Turion 64 (Richmond), AMD Mobile Sempron (Keene)
- Added detection of new processors features: Streaming SIMD Ext 4.1 (SSE4.1),
Streaming SIMD Ext 4.2 (SSE4.2), AMD SSE4A Extensions, AMD Misaligned SSE, AMD
3DNow! Prefetch, POPCNT Insruction Supported, Performance Debug Capab. MSR, Advanced
Bit Manipulation, OS Visible Workaround, Instruction Based Sampling, AMD 100MHz
Multiplier Steps, AMD Hardware P-State Control
- Reduced memory requirements
- Fixed program hang-up during IDE3 detection on some configurations
- Fixed
reading of SPD information on Intel ICH6/7/8/9 hub in some cases
- Fixed detection
of Intel Virtualization Technology, Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology and LAHF/SAHF
Instructions support on Intel Core 2 family CPU's
- Updated program database
- 05/30/2007
Version 1.53 of the ASTRA32
for Windows has been released. Click
here
to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.
- 03/05/2007
Version 1.52 of the ASTRA32
for Windows has been released. Click
here
to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.
02/09/2007
Version 5.31 of the ASTRA has been released
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New in the version 5.31:
- - Added detection of ATA/ATAPI
devices interface type (Parallel ATA, Serial ATA I, Serial ATA II)
- Added
detection of SATA NCQ command
- Added reading SMBIOS structures from extended
memory
- Added reading of SPD information on Intel ICH9 hub, ATI IXP SB600,
SiS 965, SiS 966, SiS 968 south bridges and SiS 741 chipset
- Added detection
of Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Kentsfield), Intel Core 2 Quad, AMD Dual-Core Opteron
(Hound), AMD Athlon 64 FX (Brisbane), AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Brisbane), AMD Athlon
64 (Lima), AMD Turion 64 X2 (Tyler) and AMD Sempron (Sparta) processors
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Added Phoenix for Wistron support
- Fixed program hang-up on SiS 5xx processor
- Fixed detection of AMD extended model 4 processors
- Fixed detection of
PnP devices on some Intel server motherboards
- Fixed detection of old (286,
386, some 486) processors
- Updated program database
- 02/09/2007
Version 1.51 of the ASTRA32
for Windows has been released. Click
here
to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.
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