AwardBIOS (also known as Award Modular BIOS and later known as Phoenix - AwardBIOS after the Phoenix Technologies merge of the company) is a Personal Computer BIOS developed by Award Software in 1984.
Phoenix acquisition
On April 16, 1998, Phoenix Technologies acquired Award Software to create a $100M BIOS firm. It was completed on September 28 of the same year and both companies merged. As a result of the merge, Award Software went bankrupt, while Phoenix survived.
List of known versions
| Version | Release date | POST screen | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AwardBIOS 1.xx | 198? | Asummed to exist, yet no ROM files for it as of 2022. | |
| AwardBIOS 2.xx | 1986? | Few ROM files and photos for this BIOS are available. | |
| AwardBIOS 3.xx | 1987 | ||
| AwardBIOS v4.00 | 1991 | Only used on some EISA ASUS boards. | |
| AwardBIOS v4.20/4.26/4.28/4.32 | 1992 | 4.26/4.28/4.32 might be used by Gateway 2000/Swan/Anigma. | |
| AwardBIOS v4.50 | 1993 | 
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Not to be confused with EliteBIOS, early versions have blue POST while later ones have EliteBIOS POST but with v4.50. |
| Award EliteBIOS (v4.50G/v4.50PG/v4.51xx/v4.60xx) | 1994 | ||
| Award Medallion BIOS v6.00PG | 1998 | 
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Only used on ASUS, Gigabyte, and Supermicro motherboards. |
