On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:50:40 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld wrote:

On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:42:51 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld wrote:

In the original version of your Get_BIOSserialNum function, if I examine vBIOS in the Watch window and look at Qualifiers_ Item 4, I see, (in part):
: Name : "UUID"
: Value : "{8502C4E1-5FBB-11D2-AAC1-006008C78BC7}"
I don't really know what this represents.

Hmmm. I doubt that UUID represents a machine specific value, because
the identical UUID appears in an example he

http://include.wutils.com/wmi/ROOT%5...in32_BIOS.html


They have not implemented these things for a while. There must be some
way for a John Doe OEM Machne maker who buys Joe Bloe MOBO maker's cheap
run MOBO series in M quantities to go in and set these parameters.

I'd bet the main drawback is that each BIOS chip would have to be
individually burned with a unique code block, as opposed to mass burning
a bank of BIOS chips all at one time with the same code. But a modern
flash chip could do both. Burn the base code, and update the S/N later.
but that STILL requires individual chip attention and handling, as well
as the tracking aspect imposed on the maker.