Getting serial number and firmware revison for a grpahics controller

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How to get serial number and firmware revision of a graphics
controllers like nVidia, ATI Radeon.
Is there any Win32 API call or WMI stuff ?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Arun.
 
How to get serial number
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Open computer case, read serial number (if any) on graphics adapter,
and write it down.

and firmware revision of a graphics
controllers like nVidia, ATI Radeon.
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1) Start > Run > MSinfo32.exe.

or

2) Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Information

or

3) Start > Run > DXDiag.exe.

or

4) Right-click My Computer > Manage > Device Manager.

or

5) If none of the built-in tools provide the information you want, you
can use these utilities to help determine the identities of your
computers components:

SiSoft's Sandra
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.php?dir=&location=sware_dl&lang=en

Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Unlimited Possibilities' AIDA32
http://forum.aumha.org/overflow/aida32.zip

or

6) Look in the manual/documentation that came with the computer.

Is there any Win32 API call or WMI stuff ?
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I don't know, but I can't imagine any reason why they would be.


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How to get serial number and firmware revision of a graphics
controllers like nVidia, ATI Radeon.
Is there any Win32 API call or WMI stuff ?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Arun.
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I don't know about XP, but in Win9x you could dump the contents of the
Video BIOS using debug.exe. The following example has been edited for
clarity.

C:\WIN98SE>debug
-d c000:0
00 55 AA 58 EB 04 37 34 30-30 E9 E3 40 00 00 00 00 U.X..7400..@....
10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-88 01 BE 85 C2 85 49 42 ..............IB
20 4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 4F-4D 50 41 54 49 42 4C 45 M VGA COMPATIBLE
30 20 42 49 4F 53 2E 20 00-BB 66 00 00 0F 00 00 00 BIOS. ..f......
40 92 10 07 42 28 91 49 22-4D 01 01 53 74 65 61 6C ...B(.I"M..Steal
50 74 68 20 49 49 49 20 53-35 34 30 20 28 43 29 20 th III S540 (C)
60 43 6F 70 79 72 69 67 68-74 20 32 30 30 30 20 44 Copyright 2000 D
70 69 61 6D 6F 6E 64 20 4D-75 6C 74 69 6D 65 64 69 iamond Multimedi
-d
80 61 20 53 79 73 74 65 6D-73 2C 49 6E 63 2E 0D 0A a Systems,Inc...
90 20 56 69 64 65 6F 20 4D-65 6D 6F 72 79 2C 20 42 Video Memory, B
A0 49 4F 53 20 56 65 72 73-69 6F 6E 20 32 32 36 45 IOS Version 226E
B0 34 32 30 37 0D 0A 00 00-00 00 00 30 35 2F 33 31 4207.......05/31
C0 2F 30 30 30 35 2F 33 31-2F 30 30 02 1D 30 09 02 /0005/31/00..0..
D0 00 0B 67 41 67 41 67 41-15 15 40 04 11 10 FF 06 ..gAgAgA..@.....
E0 88 88 7F FE 10 41 6C 51-6C 7B 6C 90 8A FF AF DF .....AlQl{l.....
F0 6C 00 00 88 02 00 00 FD-00 36 01 3F 01 1C 38 48 l........6.?..8H
-q

- Franc Zabkar
 
I don't know about XP, but in Win9x you could dump the contents of the
Video BIOS using debug.exe. The following example has been edited for
clarity.

C:\WIN98SE>debug
-d c000:0
00 55 AA 58 EB 04 37 34 30-30 E9 E3 40 00 00 00 00 U.X..7400..@....
10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-88 01 BE 85 C2 85 49 42 ..............IB
20 4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 4F-4D 50 41 54 49 42 4C 45 M VGA COMPATIBLE
30 20 42 49 4F 53 2E 20 00-BB 66 00 00 0F 00 00 00 BIOS. ..f......
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You can capture the entire video BIOS to a file for later examination
with an editor.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...video/msg/e37634ac6b603dbf?dmode=source&hl=en

- Franc Zabkar
 
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How to get serial number and firmware revision of a graphics
controllers like nVidia, ATI Radeon.
Is there any Win32 API call or WMI stuff ?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Arun.
 
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