OT: Motherboard Name ?

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Bob Stockler" <bob at trebor.iglou.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Motherboard Name ?


> Quoting Bob Stockler (Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:16:21 -0400):
>
>> Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote (on Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:01:14PM -0400):
>>
>> | Bob Stockler propounded (on Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:08:35AM -0400):
>> | | Walter Vaughan wrote (on Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:55:04AM -0400):
>> | |
>> | | | Bob Bailin wrote:
> [...]
>> | | | > dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k skip=14 count=2 | strings | less
> [...]
> [...]
>> | So which string is the name of my motherboard?

We are remembering are we not, that there is actually no way to do this, and 
that this was offered only as a possible angle of attack that may work 
sometimes.

Motherboard makers are not obligated to store helpful strings in the bios, 
it just happens that sometimes they do, generally for displaying on screen.

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