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How to get Motherboard serial number?

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itist...@gmail.com

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Apr 16, 2008, 5:19:40 AM4/16/08
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How to get Motherboard serial number?

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?

Thanks in Advance.

Anshul

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Apr 16, 2008, 6:38:29 AM4/16/08
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Hi

Have a look at this link

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394072(VS.85).aspx

Anshul

itist...@gmail.com

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Apr 16, 2008, 7:01:47 AM4/16/08
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Thanks for your suggestion.
I tried to get motherboard serial number from Win32_BaseBoard class
also.
'SerialNumber' property returns null. Don't know where should i get
this serial number.

-Thiyagarajan

Christian ASTOR

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Apr 16, 2008, 9:11:25 AM4/16/08
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On 16 avr, 13:01, itisthiy...@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...

itist...@gmail.com

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Apr 18, 2008, 12:55:01 AM4/18/08
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can not we get BIOS serial number using WIN API's?
I want to make a small application without using COM.
is it possible?

-Thiyagarajan

itist...@gmail.com

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Apr 18, 2008, 1:49:35 AM4/18/08
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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?

-Thiyagarajan.

On Apr 16, 6:11 pm, Christian ASTOR <casto...@club-internet.fr> wrote:

Jeff Henkels

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Apr 18, 2008, 8:02:06 AM4/18/08
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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.

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