The year 2000 wonder card

In 1996, when everyone in the PC industry assumed that the answer to the hardware "bug" in PC's would be a software fix, the Fernlink design team realised that there was a better solution - a board which sits inside the PC and permanently corrects the problems of Year 2000 rollover. In early 1997 Fernlink launched the Millennium BIOS Board.

This hardware fix for a hardware problem is the most secure fix imaginable:-

• the only 100% compliant solution for PC's and Servers.
• cost effective.
• corrects 286, 386, 486, 586, Pentium and Pentium II machines.
• corrects BIOS, CMOS, RTC permanently.
• ensures correct dates supplied to applications.
• it's impossible to delete.
• it operates even without a hard disc being present.
• it is virus-proof, (viruses cannot get to the on-board chip).
• it is OS independent (it installs itself before the operating system is loaded).
• the MBB I is incredibly easy to install. A one-page instruction sheet ' walks' the user through the process.
• installs to any ISA, PCI and Microchannel slot.
• resolves Pentium II latency problem.

The MBB I works immediately when the PC is switched on. It installs an extension to the existing BIOS, which allows the system date to rollover correctly at midnight on 31st December 1999.

For the entire life of the PC (providing the MBB I remains in place), it will check all the crucial clocks inside the PC and make sure the date is correct. The board also deals with the little known problem of latency. This is even found in brand new PC's, which have the newer clock chip that has provided four digits for the century and year.