Howto find out motherboard,BIOS info and CPU ID in Ubuntu
This post was written by admin on December 24, 2009
Posted Under: General
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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