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How do I generate a hardware report ?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:44 pm
by 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
Re: How do I generate a hardware report ?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:20 am
by 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
Re: How do I generate a hardware report ?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:36 am
by pluraldave
I would try this first. (Unless there is some reason not to use this command?)
Motherboard information
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)
Re: How do I generate a hardware report ?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:53 am
by 900i
Or just press Pause/Break as it boots up to read the boot screens.
Re: How do I generate a hardware report ?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:00 pm
by mazway
Thanks for all the tips. I'll probably order a memory stick online. Mike
Re: How do I generate a hardware report ?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:38 am
by Husse
Unfortunately dmidecode may not return anything whilst lspci and lshw always (?) returns useful info