The 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 and the maximum RAM supported […]
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I was asked to disable hyper-threading on one of our Dell PowerEdge R720XD servers. Looking in the BIOS it doesn’t stand out as an option however it does exist. You simply need to select the logical processor setting and set its value to disable and this will in turn disable hyper-threading, because it will only report one logical […]
“East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’,We’re gonna do what they say can’t be done” – Jerry Reed Hello folks, so your playing around with VMware, or Virtualbox and you go to install Windows 8 and encounter the dreaded error code 0x0000005D. Yeah this one “Your PC needs to restart. Please hold down the power button. Error […]