IS THERE a way to get into a screen that will show my mother board model?

[photo_angel2004]

Since the move I have no idea where the disc with the motherboard drivers are, is there a way to find out without the pc able to boot what mother board I have. I know it is a GIGABYTE / AMD I have no way to run everest to find out that way. Any help would be wonderful.

[atifsh]

if its not booting, and showing post u can go in to bios screen and see if it show model.

or u can open up the case and look for model number imprinted on motherboard

[photo_angel2004]

if its not booting, and showing post u can go in to bios screen and see if it show model.

or u can open up the case and look for model number imprinted on motherboard

how do I go into the bios to see that?

when it tries to boot up there is a screen that flashes in a second not enough time to read anything.

what screen in the bois would show that?

[doctorhardware]

Hit del key or the F1 key as soon as you power up the PC. That should get you into the BIOS setup.

[atifsh]

usually the first screen, but every bios is different, some pcs have seperate bios page for system info, some dont...

[photo_angel2004]

what screen in the bois would show that?

thanks

[doctorhardware]

The first screen that pops up is ususally for the video card, then the BIOS screen pops up next. That is the way at least it does here.

[drfsupercenter]

Can't CPU-z also show that stuff?

[photo_angel2004]

Thanks to all that replied I .... after many hours and a few days of attempting to get that pc up again. I threw in the towl and pulled the HD put in a brand new one and loaded windows clean start. My first time loading an OS to a new blank HD and so far everything seems to be running just fine. KNOCK ON WOOD.

But not to worrie I will have more questions and more beating me head into a wall as I try to get my other 3 computer that no longer work up and running again.

[paglamon]

Can't CPU-z also show that stuff?

It can. But PA can't boot into Windows to use CPU-Z.

[photo_angel2004]

I can now, ya know there have been a lot of updates with windows XP home took hours to update them all. I never did get my XP PRO going it seems is though my serial numbers acctually became expired. Whats up with that.

Its a good think I have 3 XP home discs just a lot more updating.

[atifsh]

one thing i recently built and use wonderfully, is windows xp live cd, my office computer got some virus / rootkit, avast finds it and deletes and then restarts but after that nothing happens it came back with restart. so i use live cd and deleted the files manually but after restart it came back, so i check msconfig and found one entry in startup but that is not in regedit run anywhere. hmm, so i again use live cd and deleted that file in system32 folder after restart system all fine.

[atifsh]

I never did get my XP PRO going it seems is though my serial numbers acctually became expired. Whats up with that.

not expired, but activated maximum times for each key, u still can activate using phone to microsoft.

[atifsh]

just a lot more updating.

if u have installed sp2 and sp3 before updating it would been very few updates, but each sp2 , sp3 would have been big downloads, but are re usable.

[photo_angel2004]

not expired, but activated maximum times for each key, u still can activate using phone to microsoft.

Good luck, LMFAO I was on hold for over 3 hours when I gave up and just installed XP home.

I have other computers we will see what happens with those.