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Questions tagged [motherboard]

Anything related to a computer system's motherboard issues. The term motherboard refers to the main printed-circuit board of a computer system where usually the CPU is mounted together with the all the ancillary circuitry needed to interface with other subsystems, such as system memory, disk controllers, graphic cards, etc. DO NOT USE this tag for questions concerning exclusively hardware issues (they are off topic on SO).

Anything related to a computer system's motherboard issues. The term motherboard refers to the main printed-circuit board of a computer system where usually the CPU is mounted together with the all the ancillary circuitry needed to interface it with other subsystems, such as system memory, disk controllers, graphic cards, etc.

DO NOT USE this tag for questions concerning exclusively hardware issues (they are off topic on SO).

It should be used for questions about software interaction with the motherboard facilities.

See Wikipedia page about motherboards.

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How to control Computer RGB LEDs in Linux

Since I switched to a new AMD Ryzen system my computer lit-up. All new hardware components seem nowadays to have such fancy(?) RGB-LEDs built in (even in memory modules, even the stock CPU-cooler from AMD). I don't like that and want to switch all…
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How to get motherboard id or serial number in Delphi?

How do I get the motherboard ID or serial number from Delphi code? Is there any example code or articles that I can look at?
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How do the CPUs on different sockets communicate?

I am tuning the performance of my parallel Java program. I am curious about the Architecture effects. Given a machine with two CPU sockets, each one with a quad-core Intel Xeon CPU, then: How do the two CPUs communicate, how fast would they…
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open source software to control computer fan speed

So I asked a similar question here but it was considered a duplicate: https://stackoverflow.com/q/6181191/319862 This time I will be a little bit more specific... Are there any open source projects that can control the pwm frequency of a…
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how to get motherboard serial number on GUI (in java)

I did like to show a motherboard serial number in text field (GUI panel). I created a text field and action button. I wrote this code in action button. What mistake did i make in this code? try { Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("wmic…
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Use NVIDA card for CUDA, motherboard for video

I want use the motherboard as the primary display adapter and my NVIDIA graphics card as a dedicated CUDA processor. My first thought was to simply plug the monitor's VGA cable into the motherboard's VGA port and hope the BIOS was smart enough to…
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Getting CPU or motherboard serial number?

I'm trying to get the CPU serial or motherboard serial using C or Python for licensing purposes. Is it possible? I'm using Linux.
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Why code are compatible between motherboards?

I've already build embedded systems PCB's using microcontrollers as stm32, stm32l, nRF51822, efm32g, most of them using arm cortex m3. And to program each one of them is usually different, i.e, the interrupt line used in one microcontroler for gpio…
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WMI Win32_BaseBoard SerialNumber

I used Win32_BaseBoard SerialNumber property to obtain the motherboard serial number and it work most of the time, but sometimes in some computers I get SerialNumber = "Base Board Serial Number" as a result. Is there a programmatic way to obtain…
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What is the difference between "soft reset" and "hard reset" in embedded field?

In my opinion: soft reset: boots from the reset vector. hard reset: pull the electrical level of the cpu.
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How to find motherboard info using CPUID?

I am trying to develop a C function for getting some motherboard info (name, id, etc.) but I can't find where these info are stored. I had a look at CPUID but I could't find anything related to the motherboard there (although lots of info regarding…
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How to get motherboard ID on Linux from a C++ program

I want to retrieve motherboard ID from a C++ program on Linux (Ubuntu) without root privileges. I know that dmidecode can do this, but it requires root privileges, so it is not suitable for my needs. Does anyone know of non-root alternatives? Source…
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How to make Motherboard Beep through C++ Code?

How can I make the motherboard internal speaker produce sounds, for example using the Beep command but directed towards the motherboards speakers. OS = Windows 7 x64 I currently know how to provide beeps to the default sound device, including…
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Motherboard ID - WMI C++ - Reliable?

I'm using WMI in C++ classes to retrieve the serial number of my motherboard. The query is the following : "SELECT SerialNumber FROM Win32_BaseBoard" I wrote the query myself so i'm not certain it is correct, but it does return something…
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Access Motherboard information without using WMI

I need to access motheroard identification (serial, manufacture, etc) in my application on multiple processes. I have been able to successfully query this using WMI, but I'm looking for an alternative. If you care to know situation: I have some…
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