24 May 10 How to find Make, Model and Serial Number on your computer or server

Well, as I have mentioned before, I would introduce another category on my blog, because my profession is actually sometimes linked with computer tips and tricks. I was thinking about naming tips and tricks and now here it is.

Nowadays, all over the world, we no longer use much of clone computers, because brand name computers are as cheap as clone computer. Moreover, branded ones can customize the specifications so easy, some companies even offer you online customizations. Anyway, having a computer means we sometimes run into some computer and hardware/software issues more or less & it is important to know the make, model and serial number of the hardware components of the computer to provide to the supplier or the company. Because sometimes you are at remote connection or lost your labels on your machine or calling to customer support, you will more or less need to identify what product or model is you are referring to.

This applies only in Microsoft Windows machines

1. In the command dos prompt… (start) and (run) and type “cmd”
“wmic bios get serialnumber”

In addition, You can use the command “wmic csproduct get name” to retrieve the local computer model or brand in same command DOS prompt.

2. Using a vbs script: you can use notepad in your windows and Save as “getSN.vbs” after you copy and paste into notepad that’s bold letter below. And then after you save it, just double click it to display on your screen.

On Error Resume Next
Dim strComputer
strComputer = InputBox(“Enter the name of the computer:”)
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:” & “{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
Set colSMBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery (“Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure”)
For Each objSMBIOS in colSMBIOS
MsgBox strComputer & “: ” & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
Next

Well, that’s all about it, it’s pretty neat and useful for me. I know people will need to use this command because it will come in handy one way or another. Oh, Another reminder, this is only for windows based computer. Below are the operation systems that are applicable to commands and script above. Hope you find this blog post useful and I too hope to post more useful stuff like this in the future as well.

Above commands and script are applicable in.

• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V
• Windows Web Server 2008

Tags: computer, model, Number, serial number