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Accessing BIOS information on a running system



--- On Wed, 3/31/10, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> In any case, before I accidentally drop the system out the
> window onto
> the Riverside station, I want to try to figure out exactly
> what the 4
> beep error code means on this system, but I need to know
> whose BIOS is
> in there.

Have you tried dmidecode?  (Pipe it through your pager of choice, there's a lot of output..)

-Dan


      






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