My main machine was bought 3-4 years ago, secondhand. The bios dates from
2006...
description: Mini Tower Computer
product: HP xw6400 Workstation (ER236AV)
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=mini-tower family=103C_53335X
sku=ER236AV uuid=82E9DFA5-0996-DB11-BBDA-BB49A05E0019
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 0A04h
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: NA
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 1
version: 786D4 v01.23
date: 12/05/2006
size: 128KiB
capacity: 960KiB
capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd
int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720
int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb ls120boot
zipboot biosbootspecification netboot
*-cpu:0
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 5
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz
slot: XU1 PROCESSOR
size: 3GHz
capacity: 3GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 1333MHz
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