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Re: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model

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From: GMAN
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:15
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In article <da855b55-5117-41db-ad1f-a9d7d93bd82e@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, Hari Hari Mau <harimau.mau@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 find the free version of  EVEREST helps with stuff like this.
http://www.lavalys.com/


Free version here
http://majorgeeks.com/download4181.html



>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 !!
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