Watch your BIOS settings with dmdeicode and biosdecode

“The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard
framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop,
notebook or server components , by abstracting these components
from the software that manages them. Modern mother boards are
compatible with this standard. For a lay user it means that the
BIOS settings can be watched from your OS. DMI standards are
published by Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) into
desktop-management standards. They also provide a related standard
named SMBIOS (System Management BIOS ).

“On linux systems , you can watch various system parameters
using dmidecode command. You have to be superuser to display dmi
information.

#dmidecode

“As you run it, dmidecode will try to locate the DMI table. It
will print a long list of information. A sample entry is shown
below.”

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