On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:19 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 10 Jan 2023 at 8:16, Go Canes wrote: > [...] > > Older Dell systems had a sticker with the Windows license key. You > > can use "sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM" to extract a > > license key that is embedded in the firmware. There is also a Windows > > program I have used that extracts the license key along with other > > useful info, but I don't remember what it is, and I don't have any of > > my Windows VM booted at the moment. > > Strange.. Looked all over the machine, and Only 2 > stickers I find on machine are one that says Windows 7, > and another one that says Intel i5 inside?? > But when I got machine, it had Windows 10 installed, > and CPU-z and lshw-gui both show the CPU as an i3 not > an i5? Oh man, it sounds like you got hustled. It sounds like someone put a Core-i5 sticker on that machine. > Think I've used belarc advisor before and think it > actually displays the windows key. Think it is Optiplex > 9020 small form.. > Since the Windows 10 was installed on regular bios boot, > don't think the firmware would have any info. You can view the BIOS/UEFI infor with dmidecode. I use dmidecode to check BIOS/UEFI versions from the command line. I'm not sure if it would be helpful in this case, though. > Just had a > small sda1partition with recovery, and sda2 was the c > drive on the 1T drive with 8G of ram. Had done a check > on upgrading cpu, but the socket and bios it reported > wouldn't support above the i3, or above the chips > generation. Recently upgraded CPU in one of my ASUS > motherboards from and AMD 2 core to AMD 8 core with > no issues. Did require a much better fan to keep temp > down. First computer was a Heathkit H-120 with 8088 > and 8080 cpus. Had 768K of Ram with separate video > board with 192K of ram from video. Way back in 1983. > Old dos 1 with dual 320K floppies. So, lots of changes > over years.. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
