Howto find out motherboard,BIOS info and CPU ID in Ubuntu

This post was written by admin on December 24, 2009
Posted Under: General

There are a couple of commands that can find out your machine’s motherboard manufacturer,name and other informations,list CPU ID and serial number,BIOS information.
This command gives your CPU ID:


sudo dmidecode -t 4 | grep ID

and serial number:


sudo dmidecode | grep Serial


The CPU information:


sudo dmidecode -t 4


BIOS Information:


sudo dmidecode -t 0


Motherboard information:


sudo dmidecode -t 2


and OEM:


sudo dmidecode -t 11

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    Reader Comments

    How reliable is information from dmidecode?
    From the manpage:
    “BUGS
    More often than not, information contained in the DMI tables is inaccurate, incomplete or simply wrong.!

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    #1 
    Written By rtmie on February 16th, 2010 @ 6:46 am

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