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how to find which memory stick error

There is a Inspur SA5212SC server involve memory error. In dmesg output I got some error: {16}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 1 {16}[Hardware Error]: APEI ...
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dmidecode /dev/mem: mmap: Operation not permitted

I am trying to get my BIOS firmware version, and memory info using dmidecode. I am connected to the server through ssh as a root user. We recently just started moving our servers from Debian 6.0, to ...
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Sun Fire V40z, big gap between memory reported by dmidecode and what the Linux kernel sees

I'm looking after a V40z (a loaner), running RHEL 4.8 (no, I can't update it, it's a loaner) that according to dmidecode has 8 DIMMs of 2048M each, which makes for 16GB RAM as far as I'm concerned. ...
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Is there a way to check "boot after power loss" BIOS configuration from CLI?

Is there a way to check from CLI under linux (Debian based) how the BIOS is configured for "boot on power loss" ? I need something similar to Check `Restore on AC/Power Loss` from CMD/...
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What does "Status: Populated, idle" in dmidecode output mean?

I have a dual-xeon HP ProLiant DL160 Gen8 server that I'm in the process of setting up, running CentOS 7, and I noticed in my dmidecode output that the second processor is listed as Populated, idle ...
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How hypervisor updates lead to changes in dmidecode?

For licensing purposes our application (running on CentOS) uses the output of dmidecode to generate a system ID. Recently, with more of our customers using the software in virtual machines, we are ...
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dmidecode uuid is different from Vmware esxi server

I have a query related to dmidecode uuid. In our product we are using dmidecode uuid try to match with ESXI vmware uuid of the same node. ESXI is providing the UUID as first three fields as big ...
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How does one get the system UUID from a server's BMC?

I need the uuid of some systems for ipxe booting purposes.. The problem is that these systems are powered off with no OS on them. I could power them on, but it would do me little good since they have ...
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Understanding Intel HTT

System 1: Notebook Detect the installed CPU: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | head -1 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz The data sheet says: no. of Cores 2 no. of ...
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