BIOS

[Daniel Robitaille]

Did you do "apci -V" or "apci-V"?  It should be the former, with a
space after apci and before the -V



On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:05 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew and Joel, I tried what you suggested and that worked ok the acpi
> was downloaded, but when I do apci-V it says command not found. Still cant
> get any temperatures.  Ray
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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