How do I generate a hardware report ?

[mazway]

I want to get a hardware report to find the mother board model of my custom built desktop. The boot up info goes too fast to copy the numbers. Firefox bogs down CPU resources. So, I am thinking extra RAM will help with my 512 MB system. Thanks, Mike

[Husse]

Two ways
The one that generally is sufficient is lspci
or you can use sudo lshw but that becomes very detailed
Both in a terminal and you right click to copy
And yes you will benefit from more memory

[pluraldave]

I would try this first. (Unless there is some reason not to use this command?)

Motherboard information

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sudo dmidecode --type 1

Or if it's the type of RAM you want you could use (although mine shows up as "unown" so it may not be any use)

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sudo dmidecode --type 17

[900i]

Or just press Pause/Break as it boots up to read the boot screens.

[mazway]

Thanks for all the tips. I'll probably order a memory stick online. Mike

[Husse]

Unfortunately dmidecode may not return anything whilst lspci and lshw always (?) returns useful info