how do you find out the model and manufacturer of your motherboard?

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If the motherboard is in a working system, we need your bios string to be able to identify your mboard and/or computer. Go here, download BIOS AGENT. Run BIOS AGENT to find your bios string. - here's the link that downloads Bios Agent http://download.esupport.com/biosag... Tell us everything Bios Agent finds, and include any dashes, etc. ... Bios Agent must be used in Windows. The following works even if you have no drives at all connected to your mboard but you are able to boot and get a display on your monitor. If you cannot use Bios Agent, the bios string is usually a long string of numbers/letters at the bottom of the first black screen as you boot your computer - usually you can press the Pause key to read it and copy it down. Press any key but Pause to continue booting. It could also be higher up the screen under or beside the bios version line, e.g. under or beside Award Award or AMI or Pheonix... Send this bios string to us, and include any dashes, etc. Please make sure you copied it right. Most Award and AMI Bios strings do not have spaces. Newer Phoenix bios strings, based most often on those for Intel mboards, are often like so: xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxxxx Sometimes the bios string is not visible because a logo screen is displayed overtop of it while booting. In that case, if you are not able to use Bios Agent, go into your bios Setup while booting. Sometimes the bios version date, and sometimes the bios version number, are stated in the bios Setup screens somewhere, and/or some show the identifier part of the bios string at the top of one or more screens. Or you could try disabling the display of the logo screen if there is such a setting, or disabling fast boot or similar, which often disables the logo screen. Tell us what you find.

Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Version 3.61 BIOS Date: 02/07/02 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG BIOS ID: 02/07/2002-i845-W83627-6A69VQ1AC OEM Sign-On: P6I845 PlatiniX-2D BIOS V1.3SLCP Feb.07,2002 Chipset: Intel 1A30 rev 4 Superio: Winbond 627F/HF rev 8 found at port 2Eh OS: WinXP SP2 CPU: Intel Pentium(R) 4 2000 Mhz MAX: 2400 Mhz BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes BIOS ROM Size: 256K Memory Installed: 1024 MB Memory Maximum: 2048 MB Memory Slot 01: 512 MB Memory Slot 02: 512 MB ACPI Revision: 1.0 eSupport.com, Inc. 1-800-800-BIOS (2467) www.esupport.com thats wt i found. any help?

"BIOS Date: 02/07/02 " "Feb.07,2002" "BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG" You have an Award bios version, and the specific bios version for your mboard is dated 02/07/02. "OEM Sign-On: P6I845 PlatiniX-2D BIOS V1.3SLCP" Apparently your model is PlatiniX-2D , a.k.a. P6I845 . The version number of the specific bios version is V1.3SLCP . "CPU: Intel Pentium(R) 4 2000 Mhz MAX: 2400 Mhz" You have a 2000 mhz (2.0 ghz)cpu installed. Your mboard supports a 2400 Mhz (2.4 ghz) cpu. "Memory Installed: 1024 MB Memory Maximum: 2048 MB Memory Slot 01: 512 MB Memory Slot 02: 512 MB" ...... A search of the web using: P6I845 PlatiniX-2D finds your mboard is made by QDI, and is officially called PlatiniX-2D for most purposes. Support for PlatiniX-2D http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/p... Manual - 11/15/01 RIGHT click on Platinix 2D.zip here, choose Save Target As to save to your hard drive http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/s... or go here to have the manual load to your computer screen http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/drive... click on floppy icon top left to save to your hard drive

thats some excellent info you have provided for me there. Really helpful. Thank you very much...but how do i find out who made my audio card? i ned the drivers for that. i think its the AC97

If it is built into the mboard, there are probably drivers for it under Drivers at the support page for your model.