'The BiosCharacteristics property identifies the BIOS characteristics supported by the system as defined by the System Management BIOS Reference Specification'
Values
['Reserved', 'Reserved', 'Unknown', 'BIOS Characteristics Not Supported', 'ISA is supported', 'MCA is supported', 'EISA is supported', 'PCI is supported', 'PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported', 'Plug and Play is supported', 'APM is supported', 'BIOS is Upgradeable (Flash)', 'BIOS shadowing is allowed', 'VL-VESA is supported', 'ESCD support is available', 'Boot from CD is supported', 'Selectable Boot is supported', 'BIOS ROM is socketed ', 'Boot From PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported', 'EDD (Enhanced Disk Drive) Specification is supported', 'Int 13h - Japanese Floppy for NEC 9800 1.2mb (3.5", 1k Bytes/Sector, 360 RPM) is supported', 'Int 13h - Japanese Floppy for Toshiba 1.2mb (3.5", 360 RPM) is supported', 'Int 13h - 5.25" / 360 KB Floppy Services are supported', 'Int 13h - 5.25" /1.2MB Floppy Services are supported', 'Int 13h - 3.5" / 720 KB Floppy Services are supported', 'Int 13h - 3.5" / 2.88 MB Floppy Services are supported', 'Int 5h, Print Screen Service is supported', 'Int 9h, 8042 Keyboard services are supported', 'Int 14h, Serial Services are supported', 'Int 17h, printer services are supported', 'Int 10h, CGA/Mono Video Services are supported', 'NEC PC-98', 'ACPI supported', 'USB Legacy is supported', 'AGP is supported', 'I2O boot is supported', 'LS-120 boot is supported', 'ATAPI ZIP Drive boot is supported', '1394 boot is supported', 'Smart Battery supported']
BiosCharacteristics property is in 1 class (Win32_BIOS) of ROOT\CIMV2\ms_409 and in 2 namespaces
'The BIOSVersion array property contains the complete System BIOS information. In many machines, there can be several version strings stored in the Registry representing the system BIOS info. The property contains the complete set. '
BIOSVersion property is in 1 class (Win32_BIOS) of ROOT\CIMV2\ms_409 and in 4 namespaces
'The InstallableLanguages property indicates the number of languages available for installation on this system. Language may determine properties such as the need for Unicode and bi-directional text.'
InstallableLanguages property is in 1 class (Win32_BIOS) of ROOT\CIMV2\ms_409 and in 2 namespaces
'The ReleaseDate property indicates the release date of the Win32 BIOS in the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format of YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.MMMMMM(+-)OOO.'
ReleaseDate property is in 1 class (Win32_BIOS) of ROOT\CIMV2\ms_409 and in 4 namespaces
'The SMBIOSPresent property indicates whether the SMBIOS is available on this computer system. Values: TRUE or FALSE. If TRUE, SMBIOS is on this computer.'
SMBIOSPresent property is in 1 class (Win32_BIOS) of ROOT\CIMV2\ms_409 and in 2 namespaces
' The value of this property is the manufacturer's identifier for this software element. Often this will be a stock keeping unit (SKU) or a part number.'
'The InstallDate property is datetime value indicating when the object was installed. A lack of a value does not indicate that the object is not installed.'
'The value of this property identifies the language edition of this software element. The language codes defined in ISO 639 should be used. Where the software element represents multi-lingual or international version of a product, the string multilingual should be used.'
' The OtherTargetOS property records the manufacturer and operating system type for a software element when the TargetOperatingSystem property has a value of 1 ("Other"). Therefore, when the TargetOperatingSystem property has a value of "Other", the OtherTargetOS property must have a non-null value. For all other values of TargetOperatingSystem, the OtherTargetOS property is to be NULL. '
' This is an identifier for this software element and is designed to be used in conjunction with other keys to create a unique representation of this CIM_SoftwareElement'
' The SoftwareElementState is defined in this model to identify various states of a software elements life cycle. - A software element in the deployable state describes the details necessary to successful distribute it and the details (conditions and actions) required to create a software element in the installable state (i.e., the next state). - A software element in the installable state describes the details necessary to successfully install it and the details (conditions and actions required to create a software element in the executable state (i.e., the next state). - A software element in the executable state describes the details necessary to successfully start it and the details (conditions and actions required to create a software element in the running state (i.e., the next state). - A software element in the running state describes the details necessary to monitor and operate on a start element.'
'The Status property is a string indicating the current status of the object. Various operational and non-operational statuses can be defined. Operational statuses are "OK", "Degraded" and "Pred Fail". "Pred Fail" indicates that an element may be functioning properly but predicting a failure in the near future. An example is a SMART-enabled hard drive. Non-operational statuses can also be specified. These are "Error", "Starting", "Stopping" and "Service". The latter, "Service", could apply during mirror-resilvering of a disk, reload of a user permissions list, or other administrative work. Not all such work is on-line, yet the managed element is neither "OK" nor in one of the other states.'
'The TargetOperatingSystem property allows the provider to specify the operating system environment. The value of this property does not ensure binary executable. Two other pieces of information are needed. First, the version of the OS needs to be specified using the OS version check. The second piece of information is the architecture the OS runs on. The combination of these constructs allows the provider to clearly identify the level of OS required for a particular software element.'