Finding motherboard specs

[Kim C. Callis]

A couple of days ago, I ended up with an old Sony PCV44G desktop system.
Once upon a time, it was used as a Windows MCE machine, but that was long
time ago. I wanted to throw a thumb drive on it and have it boot to
something else. Of course, the crap AMI bios, doesn't allow for booting off
of USB devices. Is there a way to check under knoppix the specs on the
motherboard to see if this machine is a viable candidate for coreboot
replacement?