# Ruby Can Get a Dell's Service Tag

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-can-get-a-dells-service-tag/54611>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 9, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-can-get-a-dells-service-tag/54611 "2006-03-09T23:05:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![rtilley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ce7236/32.png) [@rtilley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rtilley)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-can-get-a-dells-service-tag/54611/1 "2006-03-09T23:05:00Z")

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I grew tired of having to reboot and enter the BIOS to view the Service  
Tag or BIOS revision of Dell computers. So, I wrote a small ruby program  
to do this from within Windows. I thought others might find it useful.

[http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/svc\_tag/svc\_tag.html](http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/svc_tag/svc_tag.html)