How to identify Mother Board

[Greg12]

Is their a program that will tell me if i have a VIA chipset?


I have a compag 6350US

[donpedro]

Try search for SiSoftware Sandra...

[crahak]

Either try a websearch on your compaq model, or look at the motherboard. The name of it is usually around the pci slots.

[The village idiot]

try here: http://www.motherboards.org/moboidtools.html

Or look around the motherboards.org site, I know there is something to help you out there, because I've used it. Just can't remember exactly where it is.

[Will Hay]

Is their a program that will tell me if i have a VIA chipset?

I may be wrong but it may tell you in device manager in system properties (control panel).
My commiserations if you do have a Via chipset
Will

[The village idiot]

My commiserations if you do have a Via chipset

For many things I would have to agree. Even though the next board I buy will have almost VIA everything

[BJ_M]

My commiserations if you do have a Via chipset

For many things I would have to agree. Even though the next board I buy will have almost VIA everything :oops: :-?

commiserations means its a bad thing ... which they are iMO also

[Bagmaster]

Plenty if programs that'll id your motherboard.
Sisoft Sandra standard (free)
http://download.com.com/3000-2086-10132058.html?tag=list

Belarc Advisor (free)
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Aida (free) Download from my website, this is a dos based program that can be run from a bootable floppy(system files only, not start up disk).
Download, unzip to a folder and copy just the aida.exe to the bootable floppy. boot to an A:\ prompt and type in aida, hit enter key and away you go. This program provides a lot of information aboyt your motherboard and other hardware. I use it to id motherboards that have no name or numbers on them. Compaq's are well known for this.
http://home.earthlink.net/~redhead123/bagmaster50.htm