How to Find Out Your Motherboard Manufacturer and Model
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So you are needing to understand some key information about your motherboard, but have no clue where to locate the needed info to determine the board that you do have? Not a problem. Just follow the instructions below…
Sooner or later you will need to know the manufacturer and exact model of your motherboard, especially if you do plan to upgrade your computer, since the upgrade capabilities of your computer are set by the motherboard model you have. You will need to know this information if you need to perform a BIOS upgrade or download your motherboard manual or drivers. A BIOS upgrade is needed to make your computer to recognize a new CPU, and the manual is necessary if you want to check how much RAM your computer is able to recognize, for example.
Finding out this information is not so easy, because many manufacturers simply don’t print on the motherboard their name or the model name. Also, you may want to check if the motherboard installed in your PC is really the model you ordered. Usually the warranty is void if you open your computer, so you will need to learn how to find out this information without opening your PC. Source: Hardware Secrets
4 Comments
John Smith
May 18th, 2007
at 4:45pm
That’s it? You spend more than half of this article talking about why/when I’ll need this info - I don’t need to know why I need this info- I need the fucking info!
Then your conclusions: It’s not easy. You need to find a way.
No shit sherlock! You spend all night on that clever deduction?
Is this information you’ve posted supposed to be useful to anyone who was asking themselves the question that is the title of this page? Honestly.
I mean, it says in big bold letters at the top Hardware Help. Is this what passes for help these days?
Mako
March 20th, 2008
at 3:48pm
There is no information in this article because it’s a snippet of a 4 page article on another website. You’re supposed to click on the blue underlined text that says source, to read the full article.
I guess it’s hard to know that it’s a link because there aren’t any bold black letters to tell you that this bright blue, underlined text, that reads “SOURCE,” is an actual link. good going sherlock.
Aneesh
November 14th, 2008
at 9:38am
Interesting post. Pretty useful too. was looking for this
Thanks :)
Adam
July 27th, 2009
at 10:47pm
Actually Mako, John Smith has a point. Its difficult to follow the breadcrumb trail to the original article because of the small and irrelevant looking link as well as this websites poorly designed CSS/Styles. I scrolled up/down twice before reading the comments and realizing some lazy ass cheapskate copy/pasted half of another article, then linking to that article with a tiny trailing link. Most surfers look for visual cues that they are on the “right track”, which without those cues, will abandon ship within 8 seconds, and move onto the next search result; which this article style royally fucks up.
This article post should be more clear that it is not an article on this topic, but rather a hot link to another source where the actual effort of writing an article were applied.
I would’ve _much_ rather Googled the original article without running into this one and the mind numbing ridiculously amateur choice of colors.
Lazy ass people, trying to gain lazy ass google rank, or lazy ass forum points.
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