Retrieve machine serial number

by the way, Simonet should have your points...

best wishes,
Manuel López (lopem)

Not CPU, machine serial.

Saint10,

Sorry pal, but what is a machine serial number? Is this number the one who gives the company that builds computers to each machine? I don't know if that companies put a serial number inside any ROM or chip of the machine.

Best regards,
Manuel López (lopem)

yes, but i dont know if it is possible to retreive this serial. I know IBM can with IBM Netfinity product

Konni.

I dont think most hardware company puts a serial number to each machine... probably IBM does this with their products...

Best regards,
Manuel López (lopem)

take a look at this .vbs file

ComputerName = InputBox("Enter the name of the computer you wish to query")

winmgmt1 = "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//"& ComputerName &""

'WScript.Echo winmgmt1

Set SNSet = GetObject( winmgmt1 ).InstancesOf ("Win32_BIOS")

for each SN in SNSet
      MsgBox "The serial number for the specified computer is: " & SN.SerialNumber
Next

Does this code works for every computer brand or just for IBM computers? I dont know if most companies produce a serial number for each machine and then they put that unique number in some ROM of each machine. I dont think this is the usual practice... I dont have more ideas to share... Sorry ;)

Manuel López (lopem)

works on any computer

When I try to run the above code, I get a Syntax error on line 7 Char 1..

Set SNSet....

I know, this would not work on NT4.0 without ActiveX installed, but it works on all w2k machines.

Konni.

I have NT4 SP6 with ActiveX installed...

http://www.swynk.com/trent/Articles/SerNum.asp

I do not have WMI so I guess I'm outta luck!

yes, i think you have to install that,

From the

Set SNSet = GetObject( winmgmt1 ).InstancesOf("Win32_BIOS")

instruction, it looks to me this is a BIOS serial number, not a machine one.

I think machine serial is stored in bios rom.