PC-WORKBENCH

[HATEM]

Hi everyone,

I am designing a pc-workbench for my term project which has the following options:

1. Identify Hardware components
2. Processor
3. Hard drive
4. Memory
5. Mouse
6. Serial Port
7. Parallel Port
8. Print a Report About the Computer and Save it on a File

Until now I suceeded in getting processor information (family,speed,manifacturer,cache,serial number) and i got the mouse information (status,number of buttons).

If any one please can guide me about any other options I will be very thankfull.Also I will be very happy to tell you about any step i have reached.

I am really stucked in getting the memory size and information about the hard drive and getting the pc components and how to get the parellel and the serial ports.

I am waiting for your replays...

Regards

[anon]

What information are you trying to get from the serial ports ?
If you just want the current settings for baud rate, parity, stop bits, etc.
You can use CreateFile and GetCommState.

[HATEM]

What I need is the address of each parelell and serial port on the pc.

thank you for your replay.

regards

[pbrennick]

For Memory, GlobalMemoryStatus will store the amount of free space into a structure, read win32.hlp for more info on this and other needs.  This is very simple to do, have you tried?

Paul

[HATEM]

Thank you for your help. I just searched about the GlobalMemoryStatus but i really didnt understand.Please forgive me for my level of knowldge but I want to know how i can do it in assembly.

regards

[donkey]

Not much to it assuming that you are doing a Windows 32 bit application...

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MEMORYSTATUS STRUCT
  dwLength          DD
  dwMemoryLoad      DD
  dwTotalPhys       DD
  dwAvailPhys       DD
  dwTotalPageFile   DD
  dwAvailPageFile   DD
  dwTotalVirtual    DD
  dwAvailVirtual    DD
MEMORYSTATUS ENDS

.DATA
MemStat MEMORYSTATUS <?>
.CODE
invoke GlobalMemoryStatus, offset MemStat

[HATEM]

Thank you for your help.I am using  MASM611P, I tried to use this code but I dont think that MASM support it.

Regards

[00100b]

Did you include Kernel32.inc and includelib kernel32.lib?

[HATEM]

Thank you for your help. No I didnt , How can i get them ?


Regards

[donkey]

They are included with the MASM32 package in the INCLUDE and LIB subfolders.

include c:\masm32\include\windows.inc
include c:\masm32\include\kernel32.inc
includelib c:\masm32\lib\kernel32.lib

You should not have to include the STRUCT definition if you are using Windows.inc.

[petezl]

Hatem,

Thank you for your help. I just searched about the GlobalMemoryStatus but i really didnt understand.Please forgive me for my level of knowldge but I want to know how i can do it in assembly.

Here is a commented rough demo showing how it works! Most api calls using structures are along similar lines...

Peter.


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[HATEM]

I really apreciate your help. I dont think that I can understand your way. Today i seuceeded to find how many serial ports that the pc has and thier addresses. However I know how to get the parallel port address but i dunno how to get the number of parallel ports. I always refer to Art of Assembly when i program but maqny of the instructions are old for the PCs today  especially the one for memory size. I couldnt find how to get number of hard drives or the size of the hard drive.

Regards

[donkey]

For the drives you might check out WinExplorer that I posted in the GoAsm forum of this board, it has an internal function to build a list of drives and get their types. It is not exactly what you're looking for but will introduce you to the APIs necessary.

[MichaelW]

For disk information you could start by searching MSDN for "Disk Management Reference", and "DeviceIoControl".