Chipset Detection?

[shanenin]

When I am trying to track down drivers for an unknown motherboard, I will usually boot a linux cd, then run a command called "lspci". It will tell me what most of the chipsets in the motherboard are. I then use this info to find Windows drivers. Is their a windows program that will do the same? What do you guys use? Maybe i will give "everest" a try.

[TheTerrorist_75]

Between Everest, SIW and WinAudit I can get detailed information for pretty much any system. Both SIW and WinAudit are standalone programs that can be run from a USB or floppy drive.

[shanenin]

For example belarc adviser will show devices only if the drivers are already installed. Do you know if any of those listed above will show devices(chipsets) without any drivers installed?

[TheTerrorist_75]

I believe Everest and SIW both will recognize the chipset before driver installation. Of course Windows will need to be loaded or in SIW's case use UBCD with SIW integrated.

[shanenin]

The next time I do a reload I will experiment with them. thanks for the suggestions.

[iansnooke]

Hi! I dont know if this will help you but I use it and it gives me all the info on my pc.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/AIDA.shtml

Hope it helps!

[shanenin]

thanks for the suggestion

[Chappy]

SiSoft Sandra is probably the most powerful and featured system audit tool for windows. The pro version isn't cheap and is used by all the top system benchmark sites and systems engineers. The free version is also very full featured in itself and I find it has more than Everest, Aida or Belarc.