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What "wmic bios get serialnumber" actually retrieves?

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bios

I wonder what sort of serialnumber wmic bios get serialnumber Windows commad actually gives you?

Is it serial number of your motherboard? Documentation is not clear about it.

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Vitaly P Avatar asked Sep 20 '13 07:09

Vitaly P


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2 Answers

the wmic bios get serialnumber command call the Win32_BIOS wmi class and get the value of the SerialNumber property, which retrieves the serial number of the BIOS Chip of your system.

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RRUZ Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 11:10

RRUZ


run cmd

Enter wmic baseboard get product,version,serialnumber

Press the enter key. The result you see under serial number column is your motherboard serial number

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Stanley-Paul Ihunanyachukwu Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 11:10

Stanley-Paul Ihunanyachukwu