Get BIOS information, how to read DMI Strings from the BIOS - the system manufacturer, the model name/number and the BIOS revision number.

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colinramsden

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I am trying to find out how to read BIOS strings.

The strings that I am specifically trying to read are:

The system manufacturer, the model name/number and the BIOS revision number.

I am not sure if this is even possible to do.

I have done some google research and the very few posts that exist on this subject seem to point to the SMBIOS API, however, this does not appear to be included with MASM32.

If anyone can shed any light on this it would be appreciated.

Thanks, Colin.


NoName
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I once used this snippet to get the BIOS date of this PC to appear in a message box.

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INVOKE MessageBox,NULL,0FF478h,ADDR szMsg,MB_OK

Later on I went on to read other parts of the BIOS Data area.

You might want to check out a book or some tech sheet on the addressing and content of the BIOS segment if you write your own reader/parser.

I used the "PC Programmer's Sourcebook - MS Press"

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