bios_status.ps1

# Returns the BIOS Status
# Statuses include: "OK", "Degraded", and "Pred Fail" (an element, such as a SMART-enabled hard disk drive, may be functioning properly but predicting a failure in the near future). Nonoperational statuses include: "Error", "Starting", "Stopping", and "Service". The latter, "Service", could apply during mirror-resilvering of a disk, reload of a user permissions list, or other administrative work. Not all such work is online, yet the managed element is neither "OK" nor in one of the other states.
# Return Type: String
# Execution Context: User
$bios=Get-WmiObject Win32_bios -ComputerName $env:computername -ea silentlycontinue
echo $bios.Status