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Photo courtesy of viagallery.com This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy. lshw (Hardware Lister) command gives a comprehensive report about all hardware in your system. This displays detailed information about manufacturer, serial number of the system, motherboard, CPU, RAM, PCI cards, disks, network card etc., Using lshw, you can get information about the hardware [...]

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How To Get Hardware Information On Linux Using dmidecode Command

Photo courtesy of B Naveen Kumar dmidecode command reads the system DMI table to display hardware and BIOS information of the server. Apart from getting current configuration of the system, you can also get information about maximum supported configuration of the system using dmidecode. For example, dmidecode gives both the current RAM on the system [...]

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When you call DELL customer support for any help, they will ask for either Service Tag or Express Service Code. You also need service tag to download drivers and documentations from DELL support website. When you have physical access to the system, you can easily identify the service tag affixed on the body of the [...]

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