How to find the serial no. of the motherboard in mfc

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hi all ,
For some security purpose i need the motherboard serial no . of the machine on which software is getting installed , is there any API for the same .

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Posted 27-Feb-13 0:23am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-02-27T00:29:00

This is obviously Question Of The Day...

Don't bother, if you are trying to use this as a security mechanism.
The motherboard serial number is not a required parameter, and many manufacturers do not implement any support for reading to save costs as a result.

In theory, you can read it via WMI but do be aware that many, many times it will not return anything useful.