I know of off the shelf solutions that do peeks and pokes to report the BIOS information but no idea how to intergrate them through scripting but WMI is definitely your best approach. Is there something in more particular you are looking for like port 1900 (USB broadcast)? That might help make things a bit clearer as to what your trying to find. Checking to see if a machine has a floppy drive or a second hard drive would indeed be easy enough in WMI. Getting seriously into what BIOS version may take some time to configure or script.
If your trying to find something incredibly specific to the BIOS I would check the manufaturer site for specific BIOS inspecting and detection tools. You could, depending on the software, read that into the script as well.
Brent Eads
Employee Technology Solutions, Inc.
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