What GPU do I have?

[Jobe]

Hey Jobe, I did read your other post and all I was going to say was what did you read in my sig as I don't have one?

hi mate i thought i'd edited it quick enough
i actually thought you'd used the quote as your sig which i thought would have been very clever.
if that makes sense

 

[Amonlym]

well if its not an ati or a nvid, it could be a kyro 1 or kyro 2. a member of the S3 family, or a card carrying an intel or sis chip - those these are rare.

can you photograph the card itself?
could well be someone who will recognise it

 

[Snograt]

How about Matrox? Or even - god forbid - S3.

[edit]oops - you said S3 :|

 

[y3mdm]

Whats the first thing it says on the screen when you cold boot?
I thought it told you graphics card info.

 

[SteveB]

Try saving the BIOS to your hard drive and open the file with notepad. This will give you a load of garbled text but mine has my card model in it. Failing that, take off the cooler to see if there are any model numbers on the chip.

 

[PhillyDee]

Its already solved . . . .

And DXDiag and similar just shows if the correct driver is there. Only sure fire way is to physically look at the card. As has already been done . . . . I know my gainward 8800 doesnt show on the BIOS, neither does my laptops integrated one.

 

[SteveB]

. . . I know my gainward 8800 doesnt show on the BIOS...

That's interesting, what BIOS version is yours? I think this is the text that flashes up upon boot- the first 3 lines of mine's BIOS:

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  €  GeForce 8800 GT VGA BIOS
                                                       Version 62.92.16.00.GP

So which card is rtcneil's then?

 

[rctneil]

As I stated in an above post; I guess that is an nVidia GeForce MX 440 going by the markings on the card itself. As I said before, nothing groundbreaking but I grabbed it from a spare pc to put in another spare pc.

Thanks Guys!

 

[SteveB]

Sorry, didn't realise you'd confirmed it. Think I've got one of those lying around somewhere.

 

[rctneil]

hee hee, no problem, great cards at the time. I remember loading up rct2 when I first got one and thinking "whoa, look at those graphics!" - hee hee