Bios Serial Numbers

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jams
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Hi all.

I want to write a piece of software that will query the bios of a system and ouput its serial number. The systems we use vary, however the machines are mainly IBM/HP/DELL and toshiba laptops (these are all new, standard business machines and store serial number/asset information somplace in the bios)
I see all these utilities that can query the bios id etc. however I would like to know whereabouts these ids are stored (mem locations etc.) are these always in the same place or do they vary between dif bios mnufacturers? is there a standard mechanim to retrieve this info?

I plan to add such a utility to a boot disc which is used to ghost/image machines in our department so it will record asset number etc. then send the collected info to a remote machine.

Thanks for your time, James :o
KachiWachi
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Do you mean the machine (case) serial numbers?

That's usually kept in the DMI area...if one was entered there in the first place.
jams
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Yeah. These are standard business machines and they all have have the serials entered for asset purposes.
jams
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found an app called smbios written by ibm.. does everything i need
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