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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

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.

Yeah. These are standard business machines and they all have have the serials entered for asset purposes.

found an app called smbios written by ibm.. does everything i need