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archive 2008 11/12/2007
Version 1.55 of the ASTRA32 has been released
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New in the version 1.55:
- - 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 07/24/2007
Version 1.54 of the ASTRA32 has been released
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New in the version 1.54:
- - 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 detection of
Intel Pentium family processors
- Fixed detection of cache associativity on
AMD processors
- Updated program database 05/30/2007
Version 1.53 of the ASTRA32 has been released
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New in the version 1.53:
- - Added detection of High Definition
Audio codec name
- Added detection of SCSI and USB CD/DVD devices
- Improved
detection of ATAPI devices
- 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) processors
- 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
- Fixed reading of SPD information on Intel ICH6/7/8/9 hub in some
cases
- Fixed detection of CPU frequency 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 03/05/2007
Version 1.52 of the ASTRA32 has been released
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New in the version 1.52:
- - Added Windows Vista x64 Edition
support
- Added calculation of memory module's manufacture date
- Updated
program database 02/09/2007
Version 1.51 of the ASTRA32 has been released
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New in the version 1.51:
- - Added detection of ATA/ATAPI
devices interface type (Parallel ATA, Serial ATA I, Serial ATA II)
- Added
detection of SATA NCQ command
- 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
- Added Phoenix for Wistron support
- Fixed program hang-up during SCSI detection
on some configuration
- Fixed program crash during report saving on wrong
detected empty SCSI devices
- Fixed detection of AMD extended model 4 processors
- Fixed detection of DNS address on multiple network card configurations
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Fixed detection of old (386, some 486) processors
- Updated program database
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