Hi,This morning around 11:00am I'm going to buy an used desktop.Before I make the purchase, I hope to know its hardware specifics.So could anyone please shed some light on what small shareware/freeware I can try to detect hardware configuration?
Thank you very much!ZhaoBTW,The seller asks for
I don't know what operating system is on that desktop, but I suppose
it's not Linux.
So my question might well be off-topic here, but I wanted to try my luck
here, since this group looks very active and you guys are quite
responsive to any question, including a recent thread about where to
On Friday 16 December 2005 04:48 am, Zhao Peng wrote:
I don't know what operating system is on that desktop, but I suppose
it's not Linux.
Well, Linux is the freeware that I would suggest. Burn a Knoppix CD and boot
it up. dmesg and the KDE Information Center will probably tell you
On Friday 16 December 2005 04:48 am, Zhao Peng wrote:
I don't know what operating system is on that desktop, but I suppose
it's not Linux.
Well, Linux is the freeware that I would suggest. Burn a Knoppix CD and
boot
it up. dmesg and the KDE Information Center will probably tell you
There is an interesting tool for winders named 'PC Wizard' that does a lot
hardware detection and cool stuff.
http://www.cpuid.org/pcwizard.php
http://www.cpuid.org/download/pcw2006_v1661.exe
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The previous two suggestions are pretty solid, and I'll second the
Knoppix suggestion.
However, my usual approach to used hardware (and I deal with a lot of
it) is to open the case and take the parts out. I generally write down
the serial and part numbers and maker names off of the bits and
