Finding out a mobo model
 

Ive bought a mobo from a pc fair for £2, its got onboard gfx, lan, sound etc, its not new its a socket A 462, but i cant find the model number, any ideas ?
dont say sling it, its for one of my kids so he can build a pc and i need to know i can find drivers :)

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If it's not got a model number marked on the board somwhere then you may have to install it to find out what it is. Everest can ID motherboards once they are up an running. If you can make do with it running with bare basic drivers or with some of the onboard stuff not working straight away then Everest is the easy way to do it.

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Ive got that on cd somewhere, looks like i'll have to pinch the other boys pc to try the board, i was hoping there was numbers somewhere so i could google the specs and drivers :(

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Normally there will be numbers on the board somewhere, not always though. It could be that on power up it wil list the mobo model number during the BIOS screen, might make it easier.

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it should say the mobo details during POST... just plug in a CPU, RAM, fan & heatsink and monitor, fire it up and see what it says!

really ought to be printed on the PCB somewhere though.

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all i can say is its bright red with i think a via chipset (i'm not ripping the heatsink off) :confused:

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Post a picci someone may recognise it.

[EDIT] is this it:- http://www.vanshardware.com/reviews/...black_Back.jpg

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msi make a lot of red mobos, have a look here and see if any of them look familiar
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looks like a P4 board to me...?

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I think you are right the ide1 is red, but sadly non of those, looks like it, i'm going to have to rip the mobo out of one to try this one.

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Have you tried running "Belarc Advisor" to give any clues?

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Shouldn't there be an FCC ID on it somewhere or is that just Cards?

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yep tested to comply with. lol

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Everest would do the same thing but it would need the mobo installed which wasn't the case when the question was first asked ;)

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Post a pic mate, I found out the model and spec of a motherboard just from a three number code in tiny font the other day. Googled it and there it was drivers and all.
Get a pic up!

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If it had the smallest of numbers i would sorry i think found them, I'm going with paul's idea in the morning ;)

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having just re-read the original post, don't worry about it, just build the thing. you will be able to find drivers online.

chances are it won't even need them with winXP, just don't expect blistering performance from any part of the system (not that you would for £2!)

i'd be more worried as to whether it works...

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I use this whenver i have to upgrade an older motherboard that has no markings ..

http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php