Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. Good God. I hope you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-02 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes: As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of several

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net writes: On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes: As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:41 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. sys-apps/lshw Good call Neil, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just how long can a life be? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just how long can

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. sys-apps/lshw Good call Neil, I found that tool shortly after posting. It gives as good as dmidecode, at

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes: As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of several machines, then getting my beat up old body into some