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Article #136Re: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model
From: Franklin
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:56
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:56
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On Thu 28Aug08 06:14, Hari Hari Mau <harimau.mau@gmail.com> wrote in <news:da855b55-5117-41db-ad1f- a9d7d93bd82e@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com> : > Hello all ! > > I am looking for a utility which can help me identifying the make and > model of motherboard. I need such a utility because of the following: > > I am helping my dear old aunt reviving her old Pentium 3 computer. > Her HD has gone kaput and I'm giving her my still working 80GB to > make her PC works again. > > I've got a problem though ... > This dear ol' aunt doesn't know where she has put the driver CD for > this PC, a no-name brand generic PC. > I tried eyeballing the mobo for a clue, unfortunately, I can't find > any "mark" or "model" printed anywhere. > Now I'm stumped. > > How to download the required drivers if I don't know the make and > model of the motherboard, which has integrated VGA graphic? > Dear Gurus, please help ! > > If there's any utility out there that can tell me the make and model > of the motherboard of my aunt's PC, I would be extremely grateful ! > > Is there such utility that I can downloaded? > Please help !! > Thank you all for reading !! You don't need to know the mobo to attach that hard drive. Not easy to believe someone wants to start a project to revive an 8 year old PC based on a no-name mobo. CPU is probably not much more than 800 MHz and any Slot 1 board may be loose. The fans will be vulnerable to failure. The optical drive will feel slow. Probably has no USB. That's not a good machine for an aunt.
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