Interrogate BIOS from OS

It will let you do most things if you can write a script to do it. As WMI is capable of trashing a system if you misuse it, you'll have to find this out for yourself as I've no idea what system you have.

Neil :)

Just so you can see what you can view, download a copy of WMI Object Browser from Microsoft (Google for it).

and useful scripts built right into the editor than you can easily use by modifying a few simple parameters. I use it a lot myself and I truly don't know much about VBScript or WMI, but the canned scripts in VBSEdit will take care of that for you. I believe it has a sample script to query BIOS via WMI classes.

http://www.programmersheaven.com/download/46325/download.aspx

Here's the script provided by VBSEdit:

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_BIOS")

For each objBIOS in colBIOS
Wscript.Echo "Build Number: " & objBIOS.BuildNumber
Wscript.Echo "Current Language: " & objBIOS.CurrentLanguage
Wscript.Echo "Installable Languages: " & objBIOS.InstallableLanguages
Wscript.Echo "Manufacturer: " & objBIOS.Manufacturer
Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objBIOS.Name
Wscript.Echo "Primary BIOS: " & objBIOS.PrimaryBIOS
Wscript.Echo "Release Date: " & objBIOS.ReleaseDate
Wscript.Echo "Serial Number: " & objBIOS.SerialNumber
Wscript.Echo "SMBIOS Version: " & objBIOS.SMBIOSBIOSVersion
Wscript.Echo "SMBIOS Major Version: " & objBIOS.SMBIOSMajorVersion
Wscript.Echo "SMBIOS Minor Version: " & objBIOS.SMBIOSMinorVersion
Wscript.Echo "SMBIOS Present: " & objBIOS.SMBIOSPresent
Wscript.Echo "Status: " & objBIOS.Status
Wscript.Echo "Version: " & objBIOS.Version
For i = 0 to Ubound(objBIOS.BiosCharacteristics)
Wscript.Echo "BIOS Characteristics: " & _
objBIOS.BiosCharacteristics(i)
Next
Next

If you're running this against a computer other than your local machine, replace the dot within the double quotes in strComputer with the Netbios name of the remote machine and run the script.