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The Daring Dufas[_8_] The Daring Dufas[_8_] is offline
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Default OT Building new computer (DIY)

On 7/15/2012 8:26 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:11:34 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

I often read the chip numbers on the board then search for the
manufacturer and have found drivers that way. I would recommend
software like Speccy witch will give you info down to a chip's
part number and serial number. ^_^

http://www.piriform.com/speccy

TDD


One time in Win95 a driver was difficult to find. I found it in
Chinese (hardware info)... ran like a champ.

"The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed
software and hardware, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes,
anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in
your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private
on your PC and is not sent to any web server. "

Free from:

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

Gives more info than I care to study :-\


I like Belarc Adviser too. ^_^

TDD