Query BIOS w/o WMI

[Phylum]

The BartPE environment we use doesn't support WMI and I've not been successful in implementing a WMI plugin that works. As such, I need assistance in locating an application that will allow me to query the BIOS for certain types of information.

Specifcally, I'd like to pull the 'SerialNumber', 'Manufacturer' and 'ChassisType'. I can get this to work in WMI just fine, but again, WMI isn't supported in the environment, and I've not found something that works.

Any idea's on either what tool will work or how to implement WMI is appreciated.

 

[Phylum]

While I found a few GUI tools, none of them offer any command line options, or allow one to pass arguments, to request specific information.

If there's an alternate way of checking for hardware that does not rely on WMI, I'm open to it.

 

[dm4ever]

If you're an exclusive HP/Compaq shop...they have a command line tool that dumps the bios info to a text file.

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