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What does version in this cmd command mean?

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i want to know what the below cmd command in the screenshot is outputting. i am trying this on a dell laptop and i do not think this is the BIOS version of that its outputting. my bios version is A14 and i got A14 as BIOS version when i tried "wmic bios get name" command.

 

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No clue. I get the same number, even though I have a completely different motherboard:

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4 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

i want to know what the below cmd command in the screenshot is outputting. i am trying this on a dell laptop and i do not think this is the BIOS version of that its outputting. my bios version is A14 and i got A14 as BIOS version when i tried "wmic bios get name" command.

 

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Probably you should check via msinfo32.exe type this in run or press Win+R and type msinfo32.exe and you will get your BIOS version

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this should give you your bios version.

 

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35 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

im not looking for bios version,i want to know what is meant by version in the command i posted.its not bios version

I'm not entirely sure what "wmic bios get version" is supposed to do, as "wmic bios get smbiosbiosversion" is the command you are supposed to use to retrieve your BIOS version through the command line.

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With some research, it appears that any board running an American Megatrends BIOS (just about every motherboard) reports a BIOS release version of 01/07/2009. I have absolutely no idea what ALASKA is supposed to mean.

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46 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

i want to know what the below cmd command in the screenshot is outputting. i am trying this on a dell laptop and i do not think this is the BIOS version of that its outputting. my bios version is A14 and i got A14 as BIOS version when i tried "wmic bios get name" command.

 

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As you can see I got proper BIOS version in all 3 types I told you. You should try updating your OS and BIOS

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pretty sire ALASKA make the bios then manufacturers take it and add there own shiny tweaks amd features. 

 

think PSUs they are all pretty much made by seasonic and aio are alsktech? I don't quite remember the names n

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The command returns to you the BIOS version as the name of the command implies.

WMIC is a database, the command is a query to it. The idea of WMIC is that you (and programs) can pull system information without breaking your head in coding all the back-end. System information panel uses that to get all its information. Another way to get some system information is through the registry which Windows populates for programs, but you don't have all the information that WMIC can get, including any sort of active information like disk activity or CPU usage, as those contently changes.

 

In your case you get the get Dell BIOS version, and you use "smbiosbiosversion" instead of "version" to get the friendly name of the BIOS version.

The reality of things is that you have the ACTUAL BIOS, and the SMBIOS or the System Management BIOS (the one we interact with, which interacts with the actual BIOS). I guess you can see it as "BIOS" is the kernel/core of the OS, and SMBIOS is the rest over it that allows to control the core to do things with the system.

 

The reality of things is that when we say "Go to the BIOS", for example, we really mean is: "Go to SMBIOS"

 

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