Re: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model

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From: Mister2u
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:25

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On Aug 28, 1:14 am, Hari Hari Mau <harimau....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 !!
It's quite possible that she can't find the disc because it doesn't
exist.
Have you tried installing Windows yet?
It may not need MB drivers.

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