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Re: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model

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From: Franklin
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
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> 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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