[sllug-members]: hardware probing question

[Doran Barton]

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Allen Parker wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Doran L. Barton <fozz at xmission.com> wrote:
>> Spute, Mark K @ CSW-SLC wrote:
>> > I have a webserver I want to upgrade.  Without downing the server and
>> > taking it all apart, is there a way to determine:
>> >
>> > what processor and speed I have,
>> > what kind of memory I have and how much,
>> > which slots it is in and how many slots I have,
>> > what video card I have and how much video RAM, etc.?
>> >
>> > I think there are linux shell commands somewhere that will tell me
>> this,
>> > but I don't know what they are or how to find them.
>>
> dmidecode is your friend if you want to know exact motherboard vendor
> and ram vendor, example below:

Wow! Thanks! Didn't know about this incredibly helpful command.

- -=Fozz


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