BIOS

[Andrew Mathenge]

Quite right Joel.

Thanks for the correction.

Andrew.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca> wrote:

> Before anyone comes asking why that failed, the command should
> actually be "sudo apt-get install acpi" (without the quotes).
>
> 2010/1/13 Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>:
> > Hello Raymond,
> >
> > Have you tried the utility called "acpi?"  If you're looking for thermal
> > information on boot, that might not be meaningful. However, if you'd like
> to
> > find out what the temperature is after the system has been running for a
> > while, you can try this utility.
> >
> > Type:
> >
> > acpi -V
> >
> > If you don't have "acpi" installed, in Ubuntu,  you can install it by
> > typing:
> >
> > sudo apt-get acpi
> >
> > acpi is an acronym for Advanced Configuration Power Interface. Most
> > computers would support this. From ACPI you can get laptop battery
> > information as well as CPU statistics.
> >
> > Hopefully this was helpful.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello all,  How do I get into BIOS? I want to check temperatures of CPU,
> >> chassis etc.. as Alfred suggested, but I dont have a clue where to
> start.
> >> thanks for your help,   Ray
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