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Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:01 pm**

A friend was asking me how to check his BIOS version without having to reboot to BIOS Setup to check.

I'm not quite sure if this is possible with Linux? If it were Windows, I'd just run that utility to check.

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:48 pm**

Hi,

you can use "dmidecode" for showing the BIOS version.

Best regards,
Whoopie

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:04 pm**

Oh, that's just awesome. Looks sharp! (I installed the dmidecode package then ran 'biosdecode' -- niiiiice!)

Thanks!!!!

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Possible to read BIOS version from Linux?

Possible to read BIOS version from Linux?