# Retrieving Motherboard Serial Number

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-motherboard-serial-number/195286>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 21, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-motherboard-serial-number/195286 "2010-09-21T07:30:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![oscarlok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ea666f/32.png) [@oscarlok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/oscarlok)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-motherboard-serial-number/195286/1 "2010-09-21T07:30:41Z")

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May I know that how to retrieving Motherboard Serial Number, please?

Thanks!

Regards  
Oscar

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**Author:** ![oscarlok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ea666f/32.png) [@oscarlok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/oscarlok)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-motherboard-serial-number/195286/2 "2010-09-21T12:55:41Z")

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Oscar L. wrote:

> May I know that how to retrieving Motherboard Serial Number, please?

Use Win32OLE and the WMI interface. Sorry, no code to hand, but googling  
will  
yield more info. IIRC you’re looking for the  
Win32\_BaseBoard.SerialNumber attribute.

Clifford H…