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Award PowerBIOS is a version of AwardBIOS introduced in 1994 and developed until around 1996. It was intended for use on embedded systems and is therefore uncommon, with only a few systems being known to use it.
Despite being released after EliteBIOS, it is not its direct successor. Instead, it only succeeded it for the aforementioned embedded systems. In fact, even for these systems, it hardly became a successor, as only a few vendors switched to it while the majority continued using EliteBIOS.
PowerBIOS, along with EliteBIOS, was succeeded by AwardBIOS v6.00PG in 1998.
List of known systems with PowerBIOS
| POST screen | Compile date | System name | Platform | Chipset | Note(s) |
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March 13, 1996 | Siemens FM456-2 | Intel Pentium (586) | Intel 430HX | |
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April 2, 1996 | AAEON PCM-4330 | 486 | SiS 85C471 | Made by MicroDesign for AAEON |
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April 2, 1996 | MicroDesign AIO486 | 486 | SiS 85C471 | |
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October 1, 1996 | Siemens(?) (unknown model) | 486 | PicoPower Redwood (exact model unknown) | Seen in an unknown network analyzer here. |
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February 11, 1997 | SBS Technologies (unknown model) | AMD K6-III (586) | Intel 430HX |
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Setup screenshots
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Setup screen
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User Help
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IF-Modules
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Timeout Function
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Security
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Date & Time
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Hard Disk
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Floppy/Card
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Boot Options
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System
