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Questions tagged [dmidecode]

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How to know the manufacturer of a graphic card?

I recently discovered, in a brief discussion with kos, that Nvidia does not produce its own graphic cards (apart from Quadro series), but other manufacturers are producing and selling them (Zotac, EVGA, Gigabyte, ...). So, it's rather easy (lspci,…
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RAM info with dmidecode --type 17

On the motherboard ASUS V-PRO Z77 installed 2x2 (Kingston and Corsair) memory slots. All four slats of RAM do not cause any complaints. They work properly. But, below is the output of the result of running the dmidecode program and in the output I'm…
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How can I know my memory's "actual frequency" in ubuntu?

I bought some memory stick which is ovcerclockable. The default frequency is 2.4GHz, the frequency can be configured up to 3.6GHz. And I confiured frequency and the voltage in BIOS, set the frequency to 3.6GHz. Then I ran the memtester86 8.1, to…
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How to see memory's manufacture date?

I bought new memory for my Thinkpad. Some Windows softwares can tell me the memory's manufacturer and date. Is there any Linux software that can do that? dmidecode -t memory and lshw -class memory tell me the vendor, product number, serial number.…
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dmidecode and GNU parallel not seeing cores

We are upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 on an m5a.large system in AWS (two vCPUs). We installed GNU Parallel from the Ubuntu repos. On Ubuntu 18.04: # parallel --number-of-cores 2 On Ubuntu 22.04: # parallel --number-of-cores 1 Again, these…
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What does MANUFACTURER: CE80 mean?

What's the meaning of Manufacturer: CE80 in a memory description when listing with command sudo dmidecode -t memory? (Ubuntu 15.10)
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"sudo dmidecode" -> "/dev/mem: Operation not permitted"

When running "sudo dmidecode" I get the following output: johnny@johns-laptop:~$ sudo dmidecode # dmidecode 2.12 # SMBIOS entry point at 0xa9e84010 /dev/mem: Operation not permitted johnny@johns-laptop:~$ A search for this topic yielded only…
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Ubuntu won't map all physical memory

I have 589 Gb of physical memory but Ubuntu will only map 64Gb. e.g. free -h -t total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 62Gi 1.0Gi 60Gi 39Mi 1.1Gi 60Gi Swap: …
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Mismatch in maximum ram supported by OEM(16GB) and dmidecode output(32GB). Which is right?

I want to upgrade my laptop ram to 32GB but manufacture manual says only 16GB is supported. Laptop: HP 15-ay503tx Motherboard: HP 81EC (Version: 61.30) Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6200U (2.3 GHz, up to 2.8 GHz, 3 MB cache, 2 cores) dmidecode…
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dmidecode will read a Dell service tag - how can it be changed?

After replacing the motherboard in a Dell laptop due to physical damage, it has the "Other" service tag. The system technically is under regular warranty, but not with this "Other" service tag. Is there a way to change it to match the System? The…
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Hyperthreading Xeon CPU E5 2680 0 @ 2.7GHz

I'd like to verify whether my server set Hyper-threading, and the way to it. lscpu shows Thread per core is "2" sudo dmidecode shows HTT (Multi-threading). I expected HTT (Hyper-threading technology), if Hyper-threading is enabled. Please let me…
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4GB showing up in free in a Lenovo motherboard with 8GB. Memory Device Mapped Address vs Memory Array Mapped Address

I have a Lenovo motherboard with 2 4GB DIMMs. I see the 8GB when selecting and running the a memory test from the Ubuntu Grub bootup menu. However when I boot up ubuntu 16.04, free only shows 4GB. When I run dmidecode. I see the two 4GB DIMMs: BIOS…
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SMBIOS Data Not Displayed Correctly by dmidecode and lshw

I'm encountering an issue where the dmidecode and lshw commands are not displaying the correct SMBIOS data on my Linux machine. Most of the fields are showing up as "NONE". System Information: BIOS Version: American Megatrends International, LLC.…
Samadhan Fuke
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Motherboard's maximum RAM capacity

I'm trying to upgrade the RAM on a desktop computer, which currently has 4x2G m378b5773ch0-ch9 sticks. When I look up the manufacturer's website, It says that it Supports up to 16 GB (unbuffered) on 64-bit computers , however when I inspect the…
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Considerations to upgrade memory RAM with Ubuntu already installed. Correct procedure post-upgrade

I have a HP Pavilion g4-2368la with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 with 8GB of RAM, now according with the following official specs of HP: HP Pavilion g4-2368la Notebook PC Product Specifications The laptop supports as maximum 8GB of RAM. According with…
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