[arachne] Re: Getting the BIOS date from a PC

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On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 13:32 -0400, Steve wrote:
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> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> 
> > If anybody here knows of a similar nifty program
> > that will do that for a PC running linux, then
> > please let me know.
> 
>    Heh.  Guess my mind wasn't on the same wavelength as your question, so 
> here's what you're actually looking for:
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode
> 
> # dmidecode 2.9
> SMBIOS 2.3 present.
> 23 structures occupying 1649 bytes.
> Table at 0x000F0630.
> 
> Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
> BIOS Information
>       Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
>       Version: 07.00T
>       Release Date: 04/02/01
> 
> [...]  continues for many many screens.

You're right about that, Steve.  I have found that it sure does continue
for many, many screens.  Running dmidecode reports the BIOS date and
also much, much, more than you ever wanted to know about your computer.
Thanks for telling me about this program.  I have just now found that I
have dmidecode included in my ubuntu distro and also in my Puppy Linux
distro.  That is exactly what  was looking for. Thanks for telling us
about dmidecode.

Also, your first reply on this subject, although not reflected on the
same wavelength as the context of my question, gave us some info that
also is very interesting and useful and good to know.

Sam Heywood. 


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