Re: Retrieving serial numbers - remotely


"Peter Korsbäck" <PeterKorsbck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "James Whitlow" wrote:
>
>> "Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]" <alan-no-drub-spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23q3oENJnFHA.3448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > If I get anywhere, I will most definitely post back here. The least I
>> could
>> > do if your hard work below gets us some results!
>> >
>>
>> Here is a link you might find useful:
>>
>> http://poli.cs.vsb.cz/misc/rbint/text/1006.html#T00133
>>
>> I found table #135 to be relevant as well:
>>
>> http://poli.cs.vsb.cz/misc/rbint/text/1006.html#T00135
>>
>> Also, here is a link to much more involved script written by Michael
>> Baird:
>>
>> http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=980&ScriptType=vbscript
>>
>> The main problem that I still need to solve is making sure I have the
>> correct EDID from the registry. This presents a special problem on
>> laptops &
>> computers with more than one monitor. I more than willing to use a small
>> command line utility to read the EDID(s) directly from the monitor
>> itself,
>> but I was unable to find any. The closest I found was a payware GUI
>> utility.
>>
>
> I'm having a similar problem although I am interested in accessing more
> than
> just the EDID from a monitor. As I understand it, it is possible to
> communicate directly with a monitor using the I2C bus, but as I am new to
> programming device drivers I could really use some example code. Has
> anyone
> here done anything in this area?
>
> This link describes the procedure but I'm having trouble understanding how
> to begin:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/graphics/hh/graphics/VideoMiniPort_Guide_372bc6c3-43b5-43ae-b8c2-e4d46c825d0f.xml.asp

I didn't see anything in there that would yield easily to a vbscript
solution. You might need to switch to the dotnet environment, and C# or
perhaps some other language.

/Al


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