Re: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model

Article View: alt.comp.freeware

Article #150

#150

From: duke
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:48

43 lines
2873 bytes

On Aug 27, 11:14 pm, 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 !!

When I tried getting Everest, I was sent to a page that said the
freeware version is no longer available.

I have been using Belarc for an excellent hardware / software / OS
audit program

download link:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Technical Details

Message-ID: <c96c1d81-bc5c-47ca-9935-d668c3d1a7e2@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail

References: <da855b55-5117-41db-ad1f-a9d7d93bd82e@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Thread: 112049,2abe5130e6ef6d1f
X-Google-Thread: 10a302,2abe5130e6ef6d1f
X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,2abe5130e6ef6d1f
X-Google-Thread: faa3c,2abe5130e6ef6d1f
X-Google-Attributes: gid112049,gid10a302,gid10a2ed,gidfaa3c,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: duke <nospama@3web.net>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.windows98
Subject: Re: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:48:41 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 43
Message-ID: <c96c1d81-bc5c-47ca-9935-d668c3d1a7e2@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
References: <da855b55-5117-41db-ad1f-a9d7d93bd82e@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.197.154.93
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1219902521 18465 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2008 05:48:41 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:48:41 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.197.154.93; 
 posting-account=AbH8OwoAAACKhWMDSvdSPnjsGRXIf13M
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) 
 Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)

Reply to Parent Message