Anyone know of a program that will read video cards?

[alexjohnson16]

I'm trying to install the drivers to my friends computer cause another friend reformatted it without backing up drivers and now I have no clue what video card is in it... Is there a program that can be downloaded and tell me? There's nothing in the device manager...

Thanks

 

[DaveSimmons]

Watch the power on sequence, the video card normally displays its name for a few seconds.

 

[alexjohnson16]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Watch the power on sequence, the video card normally displays its name for a few seconds.

I tried that already to no avail, it just has the Dell bios screen with no information.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Doesn't Dell keep build lists for every computer they ever make, that you can look up from the PC's (magic) ticket number? Never needed this info myself, but I thought I'd read that.

 

[alexjohnson16]

I found out the video card, but of course, the driver on the CD and the driver on the website fail to install.

And I can't find jack crap on the ATi site.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You might list the card model in the Video forum and ask if you can use generic drivers.

 

[alexjohnson16]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You might list the card model in the Video forum and ask if you can use generic drivers.

I'll try it, thanks for the help Dave.