From: lintux_doesnt_like AT spam DOT lintux DOT cx (Wilmer van der Gaast) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: READS SERIAL NUMBER FROM MOTHERBOARD Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:25:41 GMT Organization: WorldOnline - The Internet Communication Company Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <8j5q76$pn4$12$1 AT news DOT t-online DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vp177-69.worldonline.nl X-Trace: nereid.worldonline.nl 961968774 17025 195.241.177.69 (25 Jun 2000 21:32:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster AT worldonline DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jun 2000 21:32:54 GMT X-Info: Spamming is uncool, annoying, and not useful. Please stop doing it. X-Info: Anyway, my address in these headers won't work! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Bar qnl, Cynarg Vobfpu znqr gur sbyybjvat jbeqf nccrne ba bhe fperraf: > can everyone help me to write a Prog that reads the Serial Number > from the mainboard? > AFAIK, these strings aren't stored on a fixed place in the BIOS, so you just have to scan for strings in the BIOS memory space... -- Wilmer van der Gaast | Hi, I'm a .signature virus. | server: up 26+03:50 lintux at lintux.cx | plz put me in your .signature | syscon: up 1:55 http://www.lintux.cx/ | and help me spread :) | kumara: down ----------------------+-------------------------------+ http://www.informaticaolympiade.nl/ (WorkInProgress) | -- Nonsense generated by nio2f, inspired by your text: he a prog thello can ever from to wrial numberite he mainboard thx ibosch