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12/06/2004 The beta testing period is over! Version 1.00 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 1.00:
- Added context sensitive help
- Added Phoenix BIOS for Compal support
- Fixed detection of Intel Pentium M expected frequency
- Updated program database

11/17/2004 Version 1.00 Release Candidat 1 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 1.00 RC1:
- Added detection of logical drives (drive letter, type, file system, size and others)
- Added detection of floppy drives
- Added detection of installed printers (printer name, port, type and others)
- Added detection of logon domain name
- Added Windows Info section (Windows installation date, registered owner, system uptime, IE version, DirectX version and others)
- Added Phoenix for Viglen, Inside BIOS for HP and Inside BIOS for Compal support
- Fixed detection of Pentium M (Dothan) clock multiplier
- Fixed the error 'Could not initialise kernel mode driver' appeared on some computers
- Fixed program hang-up during detection of Installed Software on some computers
- Updated program database

09/12/2004 Version 0.96 beta of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 0.96 beta:
- Added information about installed programs
- Added detection of DVD read/write speed
- Added detection of DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW read-write features
- Added detection of AC'97 sound codec name and its features
- Added detection of Intel Celeron M (Dothan), Intel Xeon (Nocona), AMD Sempron (Thoroughbred) and AMD Sempron (Paris) processors
- Added Insyde BIOS for MiTAC and Phoenix BIOS for Samsung support
- Added detection of new processors features: Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, Send Task Priority Messages and AMD Fast Save and Restore
- Fixed detection of Intel Pentium M (Dothan) processor
- Updated ATA drive detection
- Updated program database

06/12/2004 Version 0.95 beta of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 0.95 beta:
- Added detection of USB devices (vendor, model, serial number, version, speed and others)
- Added support of multimonitor configurations
- Added detection of Intel Mobile Pentium 4 (Prescott) and Intel Celeron D processors
- Added Insyde BIOS, SystemSoft BIOS for KAPOK, Phoenix BIOS for ALR support
- Fixed program hang-up during PCI devices detection on some computers
- Fixed program hang-up during VESA test on some computers
- Fixed detection of mobile AMD Athlon/Duron clock multiplier
- Updated program database

04/25/2004 Version 0.94 beta of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 0.94 beta:
- Added detection of monitor (vendor, model, viewable size, serial number, date of manufacture, supported modes and others)
- Added detection of video memory size
- Added VESA support (VESA OEM string, supported video modes, power management and others) - Windows 9x/ME only
- Added detection of network card MAC and IP address
- Added macros support in batch mode (%HOSTNAME%, %USERNAME%, %MACADDR%, %IPADDR%, %DATE%)
- Added detection of SCSI devices temperature
- Added reading of SPD information on Intel 6300ESB hub
- Fixed L1 cache size detection of Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) processor
- Fixed detection of new Phoenix-Award BIOS
- Updated program database

02/25/2004 Version 0.93 beta of the ASTRA32 has been released
New in the version 0.93 beta:
- Added SCSI devices detection (HDD, CD drives, scanners, tape drives) and their features (device name, type, size, SCSI serial number, buffer size, HDD rotation speed and others)
- Added reading of SPD information on Intel ICH6 hub and AMD 8111 chipset
- Added SystemSoft BIOS for MiTAC support
- Fixed IRQ detection of PCI devices
- Fixed size detection of Rambus memory modules
- Updated program database

01/11/2004 Version 0.92 beta of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 0.92 beta:
- Added reading of SPD information on Reliance CSB6 south bridge and nVidia nForce3 chipset
- Added detection of Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, AMD Athlon 64 FX, AMD Mobile Athlon 64, AMD Mobile Duron (Applebred) and Transmeta Efficeon TM8x00 processors
- Added detection of clock multiplier of IDT WinChip2, IDT WinChip3 and VIA Cyrix III (Joshua) processors
- The number of determined memory modules is increased up to 8
- Fixed detection of Intel Pentium M clock multiplier
- Some bugs fixed
- Updated program database

12/07/2003 Version 0.91 beta of the ASTRA32 has been released
New in the version 0.91 beta:
- Fixed program hang-up on computers with Asustek motherboard
- Fixed program hang-up during ISA/PnP detection on some computers

11/25/2003 Version 0.90 beta of the ASTRA32 has been released. This is the first public beta version of ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool. If you want to help with the development of this program, send the report from your system to support@sysinfolab.com

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