problem obtaining the bios serial id from an Award BIOS
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:02 pm
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting the serial id of the BIOS on my machine (it has an Award BIOS, and it is relatively new a Pentium III with a Soyo motherboard).
Anyway.
I'm programming in C++, and I guess I'm correctly traversing the SMBIOS table structures (since some utility I downloaded shows me the same information I'm obtaining).
More specifically, what I can't obtain is the last part of the BIOS id string, which ends like something like this:
2A5LEF09C-00
Is this information accesible differently than using the BIOS table structures?
Is it in a fixed 32 bit address?
Is this problem present on other BIOS manufacturers too?
Any clue will be valuable.
TIA,
Gabriel
I'm having trouble getting the serial id of the BIOS on my machine (it has an Award BIOS, and it is relatively new a Pentium III with a Soyo motherboard).
Anyway.
I'm programming in C++, and I guess I'm correctly traversing the SMBIOS table structures (since some utility I downloaded shows me the same information I'm obtaining).
More specifically, what I can't obtain is the last part of the BIOS id string, which ends like something like this:
2A5LEF09C-00
Is this information accesible differently than using the BIOS table structures?
Is it in a fixed 32 bit address?
Is this problem present on other BIOS manufacturers too?
Any clue will be valuable.
TIA,
Gabriel