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Getting Memory Device Info using Object Pascal (Delphi / FPC) and the TSMBIOS

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dram-moduleIf you need to know what type of RAM is installed in your system or how is the manufacturer of your memory device, you can try reading the SPD (Serial presence detect) info directly (but not all the memory devices exposes the SPD info and reading the SPD require Kernel Mode access) , use the Win32_PhysicalMemory WMI class (but depending of the manufacturer the WMI fails to get info about some memory properties like the memory type) or using the SMBIOS.

Using the SMBIOS you can get most of the info related to the memory devices installed like manufacturer, type, speed, serial number and so on. The next snippet show how using the TSMBIOS and Delphi (or FPC) you can retrieve such data.

{$IFDEF FPC}{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
{$ELSE}
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
{$ENDIF}

uses
  Classes,
  SysUtils,
  uSMBIOS;

procedure GetMemoryDeviceInfo;
Var
  SMBios : TSMBios;
  LMemoryDevice  : TMemoryDeviceInformation;
begin
  SMBios:=TSMBios.Create;
  try
      WriteLn('Memory Device Information');
      WriteLn('-------------------------');

      if SMBios.HasMemoryDeviceInfo then
      for LMemoryDevice in SMBios.MemoryDeviceInformation do
      begin
        WriteLn(Format('Total Width    %d bits',[LMemoryDevice.RAWMemoryDeviceInfo^.TotalWidth]));
        WriteLn(Format('Data Width     %d bits',[LMemoryDevice.RAWMemoryDeviceInfo^.DataWidth]));
        WriteLn(Format('Size           %d Mbytes',[LMemoryDevice.GetSize]));
        WriteLn(Format('Form Factor    %s',[LMemoryDevice.GetFormFactor]));
        WriteLn(Format('Device Locator %s',[LMemoryDevice.GetDeviceLocatorStr]));
        WriteLn(Format('Bank Locator   %s',[LMemoryDevice.GetBankLocatorStr]));
        WriteLn(Format('Memory Type    %s',[LMemoryDevice.GetMemoryTypeStr]));
        WriteLn(Format('Speed          %d MHz',[LMemoryDevice.RAWMemoryDeviceInfo^.Speed]));
        WriteLn(Format('Manufacturer   %s',[LMemoryDevice.ManufacturerStr]));
        WriteLn(Format('Serial Number  %s',[LMemoryDevice.SerialNumberStr]));
        WriteLn(Format('Asset Tag      %s',[LMemoryDevice.AssetTagStr]));
        WriteLn(Format('Part Number    %s',[LMemoryDevice.PartNumberStr]));

        WriteLn;

        if LMemoryDevice.RAWMemoryDeviceInfo^.PhysicalMemoryArrayHandle>0 then
        begin
          WriteLn('  Physical Memory Array');
          WriteLn('  ---------------------');
          WriteLn('  Location         '+LMemoryDevice.PhysicalMemoryArray.GetLocationStr);
          WriteLn('  Use              '+LMemoryDevice.PhysicalMemoryArray.GetUseStr);
          WriteLn('  Error Correction '+LMemoryDevice.PhysicalMemoryArray.GetErrorCorrectionStr);
          if LMemoryDevice.PhysicalMemoryArray.RAWPhysicalMemoryArrayInformation^.MaximumCapacity<>$80000000 then
            WriteLn(Format('  Maximum Capacity %d Kb',[LMemoryDevice.PhysicalMemoryArray.RAWPhysicalMemoryArrayInformation^.MaximumCapacity]))
          else
            WriteLn(Format('  Maximum Capacity %d bytes',[LMemoryDevice.PhysicalMemoryArray.RAWPhysicalMemoryArrayInformation^.ExtendedMaximumCapacity]));

          WriteLn(Format('  Memory devices   %d',[LMemoryDevice.PhysicalMemoryArray.RAWPhysicalMemoryArrayInformation^.NumberofMemoryDevices]));
        end;
        WriteLn;
      end
      else
      Writeln('No Memory Device Info was found');
  finally
   SMBios.Free;
  end;
end;

begin
 try
    GetMemoryDeviceInfo;
 except
    on E:Exception do
        Writeln(E.Classname, ':', E.Message);
 end;
 Writeln('Press Enter to exit');
 Readln;
end.

memoryInfo

Note: Remember if you uses FPC, you can use this library in linux as well :)

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Author: Rodrigo

Just another Delphi guy.

6 thoughts on “Getting Memory Device Info using Object Pascal (Delphi / FPC) and the TSMBIOS

  1. uli_bru's avatar

    Be careful when using SMBIOS or WMI. Both methods seem to fail in case of multiple memory devices.
    At least I get a clear fault with 4 memory devices. SMBIOS and WMI display three identical serial numbers whereas the utility CPUID CPU-Z clearly shows 4 different serial numbers. CPUID CPU-Z is using SPD.

    • Rodrigo's avatar

      Hi, Thanks for your feedback, can you dump your SMBIOS Data (using the method TSMBIOS.SaveToFile) and also send me a screenshot of the CUPID CPU-Z App, to make some tests?

  2. Hur AKDULGER's avatar

    nice…

  3. opc0de's avatar

    Hi, nice work .

    I can’t compile on Ubuntu I get :

    /home/opc0de/Music/smbios/tsmbios-read-only/Common/uSMBIOS.pas(4084,24) Error: Can’t take the address of constant expressions

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