Surface Diagnostic Toolkit: Check Surface System Information

Surface Diagnostic Toolkit is an exclusive tool to guide you through a set of software repairs and hardware diagnostics to quickly and efficiently uncover and resolve issues you are experiencing on your supported Surface devices. On top of that, it also lets you look up information about your device, repair common software issues, and validate your Surface hardware.

Today we will show you how to use the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit (SDT) to quickly identify your Surface’s serial number and all key specifications about your device in one quick summary report.

Note Surface Diagnostic Toolkit works on all recent Surface devices starting from Surface 3 devices.

Welcome to Quick Tips, a series where we cover every little thing about Microsoft Surface and Its Accessories-related topics with an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide.

How to Get Surface Diagnostic Toolkit

The Surface Diagnostic Toolkit is a free tool from Microsoft hosted on Microsoft Store. To get it:

  1. Download Surface Diagnostic Toolkit from Microsoft Store here.
  2. Or go to Microsoft Store.
  3. In the Search box, type “Surface Diagnostic Toolkit“.
  4. Click “Free” or “Install” to install the app on your device.
    Download Surface Diagnostic Toolkit

How to Check Surface Key Specifications

When the app is installed. To check your Surface’s system information:

  1. Launch the “Surface Diagnostic Toolkit“.
    Open Surface Diagnostic Toolkit
  2. Under the hamburger menu, select “System Information“.
    Surface Diagnostic Toolkit: Surface Key Specifications Menu
  3. Now your Surface’s system information will show you all your device’s key specifications including your serial number, device model, Windows edition, OS build, OS architecture, BIOS version/date, processor, storage size, installed RAM, GPU, screen resolution, current user, and domain.
    Surface Diagnostic Toolkit: Surface Key Specifications
Note You can use the Copy button to copy all the showed information to the Clipboard and paste it to where you want.

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