Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. General Programming
  3. C / C++ / MFC
  4. identifying a system

identifying a system

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved C / C++ / MFC
question
7 Posts 4 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • P Offline
    P Offline
    Parvathy_1985
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    is motherboard serial number different from the Cpu id?If a system needs to be identified ,which is the better one(cpu id or motherboard serial number) to identify one system from another,other than MAC id?thanx in advance.... :)

    R V P 3 Replies Last reply
    0
    • P Parvathy_1985

      is motherboard serial number different from the Cpu id?If a system needs to be identified ,which is the better one(cpu id or motherboard serial number) to identify one system from another,other than MAC id?thanx in advance.... :)

      R Offline
      R Offline
      Rajesh R Subramanian
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      Parvathy_1985 wrote:

      is motherboard serial number different from the Cpu id?

      Yes. Both are equally good to identify a system. No two motherboards or CPU will have the same serial number / ID. Use whichever is easier to you. You might want to use them both together as well.

      Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • P Parvathy_1985

        is motherboard serial number different from the Cpu id?If a system needs to be identified ,which is the better one(cpu id or motherboard serial number) to identify one system from another,other than MAC id?thanx in advance.... :)

        V Offline
        V Offline
        vijay_aroli
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        In addition to Rajesh's reply, you may also consider using the serial number of the hard drive too.

        Regards, Vijay.

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • P Parvathy_1985

          is motherboard serial number different from the Cpu id?If a system needs to be identified ,which is the better one(cpu id or motherboard serial number) to identify one system from another,other than MAC id?thanx in advance.... :)

          P Offline
          P Offline
          Parvathy_1985
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          i find that inorder to retrieve cpu id , assembly language is to be written,is it true?Is there any other alternative??thanking you in advance.... :)

          V R R 3 Replies Last reply
          0
          • P Parvathy_1985

            i find that inorder to retrieve cpu id , assembly language is to be written,is it true?Is there any other alternative??thanking you in advance.... :)

            V Offline
            V Offline
            vijay_aroli
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            Parvathy_1985 wrote:

            i find that inorder to retrieve cpu id , assembly language is to be written,is it true?

            No. you can use the Win32 WMI classes to get the hardware information. May be this[^] article can help you.

            Regards, Vijay.

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • P Parvathy_1985

              i find that inorder to retrieve cpu id , assembly language is to be written,is it true?Is there any other alternative??thanking you in advance.... :)

              R Offline
              R Offline
              Rajesh R Subramanian
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              Have a look at this article: Three ways to retrieve processor information[^] And then, I strongly recommend you to use Google. It works for me all the time. Almost. ;)

              Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • P Parvathy_1985

                i find that inorder to retrieve cpu id , assembly language is to be written,is it true?Is there any other alternative??thanking you in advance.... :)

                R Offline
                R Offline
                Rajkumar R
                wrote on last edited by
                #7

                Parvathy_1985 wrote:

                Is there any other alternative??

                you may be interested in [__cpuid Intrinsics^] BTW, you may get useful information from [The Win32_Processor WMI class^] [WMI Tools' WMI Object Browser^] will be handy to find the values before hand you program.

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                Reply
                • Reply as topic
                Log in to reply
                • Oldest to Newest
                • Newest to Oldest
                • Most Votes


                • Login

                • Don't have an account? Register

                • Login or register to search.
                • First post
                  Last post
                0
                • Categories
                • Recent
                • Tags
                • Popular
                • World
                • Users
                • Groups