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From: itisthiyagu on 18 Apr 2008 01:49
Thanks.
But i want make a simple application without using any COM(WMI).
is it possible to get BIOS serial number without using WMI classes?

-Thiyagarajan.

On Apr 16, 6:11 pm, Christian ASTOR <casto...(a)club-internet.fr> wrote:
> On 16 avr, 13:01, itisthiy...(a)gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > > I want to use Motherboard serial number for licensing mechanism.
> > > > I am able to get MAC address of Network Adapter. If user changes the
> > > > NIC, MAC changes.
> > > > I want to use some client information which is stable. I prefer to
> > > > use Motherboard's serial number.
>
> > > > anybody knows how to get Motherboard serial number?
>
> There is also Win32_ComputerSystemProduct but, like Win32_BaseBoard,
> it reads the SMBIOS tables...

From: Jeff Henkels on 18 Apr 2008 08:02
Well, you can always read the SMBIOS tables yourself -- you'll need a
kernel-mode driver to access the ROM. A NT legacy driver will be sufficient
so you don't have to deal with the complexities of WDM/KMDF/WDF. The code
isn't too difficult; there should be some samples floating around on the
net.

<itisthiyagu(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks.
> But i want make a simple application without using any COM(WMI).
> is it possible to get BIOS serial number without using WMI classes?


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