American Megatrends Inc. Unveils its New Windows Based Diagnostic Software Offering.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2000 Editorial Summary -- AMIDiag 7.0, a Windows based Diagnostic Software Application allows for easy user interaction and comprehension. -- AMIDiag 7.0 offers advanced capabilities for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000 Operating Systems American Megatrends American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia, USA based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, S. Shankar. Inc. (AMI), the leader in storage and computing computing - computer innovations worldwide, today announced the addition of AMIDiag 7.0(R), a diagnostic software application for the Windows(R) environment, to its extensive line of products. Building on the strength of previous versions of AMIDiag, the award winning DOS-based diagnostic software solution, AMIDiag 7.0 is interactive Windows-based diagnostic software utility. "AMI is the leader in designing high-end diagnostic software," said Mark Huffman, Director of Software Sales at AMI. "With the release of AMIDiag 7.0 for Windows, AMI continues to offer the industry's most complete diagnostic software solution." AMIDiag 7.0 is an interactive utility that offers advanced capabilities for the Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000 Operating Systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. including system information for major components, system diagnostics and interactive diagnostics. Designed with the consumer in mind, the AMIDiag 7.0 GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. interface is easy to navigate and allows for user-friendly interaction and comprehension. AMIDiag 7.0 offers several fully interactive features including mouse, keyboard, video resolution, 3D video and audio tests, which enable the administrator to view results as they run. AMIDiag 7.0 was designed to give the user the ability to schedule component testing, choose the order in which to run those tests and an intuitive interface with which the test results are viewed. A premier feature of AMIDiag 7.0 is Trouble Ticket(TM), which gathers information from and prints out the results in an easy-to-read format. Trouble Ticket has also been structured to send diagnostic test results via email to an address determined by the user. This function allows the administrator to view the results of the system tests from a remote location. If there is a problem with a system, the user can run AMIDiag on their system and email the results to the PC supplier. Trouble Ticket will make diagnosing a system failure easier for the consumer as well as the system provider. AMIDiag 7.0 for Windows is scheduled upon release in December, to be packaged with the industry standard diagnostic AMIDiag 6.02 for DOS. By bundling the two diagnostics together, not only will the consumer be able to diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. minor system malfunctions with ease, but also in case of a major system failure, the user will have the AMIDiag 6.02 for DOS in order to run tests with. About AMI Founded in 1985, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has dedicated its resources to providing OEMs, resellers and systems integrators with leading edge computer technologies. This privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , best known for its Basic Input/Output Systems (operating system) Basic Input/Output System - (BIOS, ROM BIOS) The part of the system software of the IBM PC and compatibles that provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices and controls the first stage of the bootstrap process, including installing the operating or BIOS BIOS in full Basic Input/Output System Computer program that is typically stored in EPROM and used by the CPU to perform start-up procedures when the computer is turned on. , also supplies its state-of-the-art hardware, software, utilities and RAID controllers A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. to over 55 percent of today's high-tech manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S. and throughout the world including London, Madras Madras. 1 State and former province, India: see Tamil Nadu. 2 City, India: see Chennai. , Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve our customers. For more information on AMI, its products or services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or www.ami.com. All registered trademarks are property of their respected companies. |
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