What "wmic bios get serialnumber" actually retrieves?

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Vitaly P picture Vitaly P · Sep 20, 2013 · Viewed 116.4k times · Source

I wonder what sort of serialnumber wmic bios get serialnumber Windows commad actually gives you?

Is it serial number of your motherboard? Documentation is not clear about it.

Answer

RRUZ picture RRUZ · Sep 20, 2013

the wmic bios get serialnumber command call the Win32_BIOS wmi class and get the value of the SerialNumber property, which retrieves the serial number of the BIOS Chip of your system.

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