Year 2000 Diagnostic Utility
Is your BIOS ready for the Year 2000?
This diagnostic program will correctly identify if your BIOS is ready for the Year 2000.
ami2000.com will performseveral date checks on
any
major manufacturer's BIOS and verify your system's readiness for the next century.
This diagnostic will run from DOS and Windows 95, but is recommended for DOS only.
Please note: The RTC year 2000 roll-over test will probably fail in older PCs .
If this test fails, do not worry. The BIOS can still be Y2K compliant.
Failure on the test only confirms that the RTC is flawed. The BIOS can still be okay.
A Y2K-compliant BIOS will update the century byte to 1-1-2000. This means that the RTC
failure is not relevant to the BIOS rollover issue.
Download ami2000.com (English)
Instructions
DOS
Run the executable ami2000.com from the command prompt.
Windows 95
This program will run under Win95, but is recommended for DOS only
You may run the executable by double-clicking it or from the Start menu choose Run and select
the file, ami2000.com.
If you would like to perform a test on your BIOS without downloading this diagnostic follow
the steps below.
1) Set date and time to 12/31/99 11:59:00pm
2) Turn system off and wait at least 1 minute
3) Turn system on and enter BIOS setup.
4) Verify date reported by BIOS setup is 1/1/2000
5) Set date and time to 2/28/2000 11:59:00pm#
6) Turn system off and wait at least 1 minute
7) Turn system on and enter BIOS setup.
8) Verify date reported by BIOS setup is 2/29/2000
9) Reset your date and time to the current settings
AMI does not offer support for this diagnostic program. It is provided as is. Furthermore
AMI shall not be held responsible in the event your BIOS is deemed non-compliant with the
Year 2000 standard. Please contact your motherboard manufacturer for updates to your BIOS.
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