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SMBIOS Drive for Dell Client PowerShell Provider
I cannot change to the dell smbios directory for the dell client powershell provider. When I do a driverquery.exe /v /fo csv | ConvertFrom-CSV | Where {$_.'Module Name' -match 'Dcdbas'} I see the results for dcdbas64.sys. I've attached a screenshot of the results.
rorteg56
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March 10th, 2016 17:00
Updating my bios worked.
Thank You!!
DELL-Vibha G
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March 7th, 2016 21:00
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
rorteg56
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March 8th, 2016 09:00
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.
DELL-Vibha G
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March 9th, 2016 00:00
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
rorteg56
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March 9th, 2016 08:00
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.
DELL-Vibha G
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March 9th, 2016 21:00
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
rorteg56
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March 10th, 2016 12:00
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
jsiii2010
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June 15th, 2023 09:00
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 }