Access Motherboard information without using WMI

Question

I need to access motheroard identification (serial, manufacture, etc) in my application on multiple processes. I have been able to successfully query this using WMI, bu

Answer 1

In Vista+ you can use GetSystemFirmwareTable API to access SMBIOS tables and parse them out to obtain [possibly available] serial numbers and other identification strings and values.

In particular you can access motherboard data, including vendor and S/N:

            Intel Corporation
            DZ77BH-55K
            AAG39018-400
            BQBH206600DT

Answer 2

Apparently there is no way to do this, which is unfortunate.

Answer 3

That information is provided by the CPUID instruction. The following link provides you with a program that uses this instruction to expose the results of executing the instruction.

cpuid GNU program