Without Opening my case how do I find out what mobo I have?

[Joyride]

Just formatted my hard drive for the first time in forever. Now I can't find the driver disk for my motherboard and sound.

Anyway to find out my video card also?

Thanks for any help

 

[Zap]

For motherboard, sometimes you can get that information from CPU-Z. For video card, if you remember vaguely what it is (Geforce or Radeon) then just download their unified driver set and install. Alternately, pay attentin during POST. Some video card BIOSes will state what they are.

 

[boglwe]

There is always Belarc Advisor. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

That should tell you. WILL tell you.

 

[fretman]

Originally posted by: Joyride
Just formatted my hard drive for the first time in forever. Now I can't find the driver disk for my motherboard and sound.

Anyway to find out my video card also?

Thanks for any help

If you're running XP, click on START and then RUN. Then type DXDIAG in the RUN box and click OK. I believe on the first tab (screen) you should see your system configurations including mobo name. Other tabs will display your video card info.

Or if you're using VISTA, I believe the SEARCH button brings up a box where you type in DXDIAG.

Good luck!