How to Get BIOS Information

Keywords: 	 BIOS 

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Question:

Is there a way to get version and date and time from the system bios?

Answer:

AHhhh. That time honored question. There is a way to get some info from a registry, but it may not be accurate, if the machine has already been flashed. I use a utility called SYSCHK - www.syschk.com, and redirect the output to t text file, and use WinBatch binary buffers to get the info. That is the best solution thus far, other than spending BIG bucks for a DMI tool (which are not 100% anyway...)

Another user reports:

You can often find BIOS information in the HKLM\Enum\Root\*PNP0C01\0000[BIOSDate]

HKLM\Enum\Root\*PNP0C01\0000[BIOSName]
HKLM\Enum\Root\*PNP0C01\0000[BIOSVersion]

You MAY have to check through some sub keys occasionally, i.e.,

HKLM\Enum\Root\*PNP0C01\0000            and then 
HKLM\Enum\Root\*PNP0C01\0001,           etc

and can often find Monitor information located under:

HKLM\Enum\Root\Monitor

usually there's a "subkey" DEFAULT_MONITOR and the other "subkey" is the monitor

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Article ID:   W14149

Filename:   Get BIOS Information.txt