Identifying a video card (onboard)

[BoboKatt]

Ok so I have a client of mine -- gave me his PC to clean it up and reinstall windows. He went out and bought Vista to replace the XP that it came with. I installed and all is well but for the life of me I cannot figure out what onboard video card has.

The system is an older Via ester 1500mhz and it has built in AGP video, audio, lan etc. I installed the Via 4 in 1 hyperion drivers, but no matter what Vista sees the video card as a standard VGA and it's dog slow.

I looked all over the mobo and I can't find any reference to a chip name.. nor even a name of the board. I think it might be a Via Epia board but again it's got nothing else. Is there some sort of utility that anyone could suggest which queries the video card? Any other ideas?


PS: wish I could just slap in a cheap card, but the mobo does not have a PCIe or AGP slot at all. It has what I think are 2 older PCI slots only. Guess worse comes to worse look for a used PCI card.

 

[Binky]

See if this utility tells you anything.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

 

[toyota]

he spent more on Vista then what the pc is even worth. for 150 bucks more he could have just bought a brand new modern pc with Vista on it. also its likely to too slow and doesnt even meet the real world requirements to even run Vista properly.

 

[SonicIce]

The name might be hiding under a heatsink so you won't see it. Use GPUZ or CPUZ to tell you the videocard or motherboard chipset, respectively.

 

[hans007]

an ester 1500mhz is going to have a via chrome 9 or unichrome pro in it.

its probably a via C7 1500mhz machine.

probably running the CN700 or vx800 chipset (much more likely the CN700 which uses unichrome pro i thinkt hey have a unified driver anyway).