Re: Installed Fedora 37 on older Dell with Windows 10, but doen't show windows as boot option??
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:19 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 10 Jan 2023 at 8:16, Go Canes wrote:
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> 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