SMBIOS Drive for Dell Client PowerShell Provider

Is the provider loaded and DellSmbios: drive available in your PowerShell session?  

You can check by executiong the cmdlets Get-Module and Get-PSDrive.

 dcdbas64.sys is not required for 1.0 release of Dell Client Power Shell Provider.

Thanks

Vibha

After I run the command Import-Module .\DellBIOSProvider.psd1 I will do a Get-Module and I do see DellBIOSProvider listed but when I do a Get-PSDrive I do not see it listed.

I have attached a screenshot of the output.

Please retry to load module with -

import-module .\DellBIOSProvider.psd1 -Force -verbose

Send us the screenshot of the verbose messages if DellSmbios: drive is still not available.

Thanks

Vibha

I've attached the error I get when I run import-module .\dellbiosprovider.psd1 -force -verbose.

Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it.

Looks that required WMI-ACPI support is not available in BIOS. Please send the model number and BIOS version of your computer to verify.

You can check here if your platform and BIOS is in the supported list  -

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/11653.supported-platformsbios-reference-list-for-dell-command-powershell-provider

BIOS upgrade may be required in your platform to execute DellBIOSprovider.

Thanks

Vibha

It's an OptiPlex 9020 bios version A12.

I'm going to update the bios to A14 or newer and see if that will fix the issue. I'll let you know the results.

Thank you

This fixed it for me (and fixes cctk - "Couldn't get WMI-ACPI Buffer Size!!").  The devices come back after rebooting.

# reboot after
foreach ($dev in
Get-PnpDevice -FriendlyName 'Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver',
'Microsoft Windows Management Interface for ACPI') {
pnputil /remove-device $dev.InstanceId }