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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

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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

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