Thread: How to Get Information from the BIOS?

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    How to Get Information from the BIOS?

    I'm writing a program that adds all my company's computers' information to a database. I've got the RAM, processor, hard drive space, etc. already and just need the models and serial numbers. They're all Dells and I've searched the registry and can't find anything. I know, however, that the information is listed in the BIOS at the top of the main page. How can I access that from a program?

    Thanks!

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    you may have to use assemberly language. Look up the bios interrupts and then call 10h once you found and stored all the necessary values for the sub function in the specific registers.
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    can't we do that with c++ without using another language
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    Right, I have been doing some searching. There is a header file called bios.h. It is not usually included with modern day compilers. I found a copy of it with my turbo c. You can download here. So if you put that in your include directory, you can then go to this site which tells you some of the functions availabel:

    http://www.digitalmars.com/rtl/bios.html.

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