Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Registry and commands to retrieve the bios information

Huh.., Registry provides lot of help to us in performing action and gathering information.

Here are some registries from where we can identify the bios information.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS],

which gives the information regarding,

1. BiosMajorRelease
2. BiosMinorRelease
3. ECFirmwareMajorRelease
4. ECFirmwareMinorRelease
5. BaseBoardManufacturer
6. BaseBoardProduct
7. BaseBoardVersion
8. BIOSReleaseDate
9. BIOSVendor
10. BIOSVersion
11. SystemFamily
12. SystemManufacturer
13. SystemProductName
14. SystemSKU
15. SystemVersion


Commands that are used to retrieve bios information are,

1. Systeminfo | findstr /C:BIOS

Output:

BIOS Version:              Insyde F.22, 8/6/2014

2. wmic bios get /?

which gives all the paramters that can be retrieved.