Detected ATi But Manual Says Otherwise?

Tayl

Tayl

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Hello all.

Basically, as mentioned I think in another post, I've been given a PC to work on / fix and I'm at the process of installing all of the drivers. However the individual I am fixing it for never gave me any documentation / information on the components in the PC so finding drivers for components are a little tough. I was at the point of finding out what graphics card it has so I could install the graphics drivers for it and I had no idea what card it had in it. I wondered if PC Wizard 07 would still be able to read the sensor and give me some idea to what model / make the card was so I installed that, loaded it up and upon taking absolutely ages to detect the graphics card, it surprisingly outputted that it was of ATi Technology. However a day or two later she found the manual and it oddly stated that the computer had a Nvidia 7300 within it.

Which do I go with? The 7300 or the ATi Tech detection? Why would it output it was an ATi card if it is an Nvidia card? Any other way to find out? I was thinking of opening up the case and seeing if it had anything on the card itself but it's a Dell, and from what I remember they put cheap crud in their PC's so I doubt it'll have the name branded on the card would it?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Best regards,

Rove.
 
If you have DirectX installed, Go to start then run and type "dxdiag". That will show you information about ther computer as well as your video card type.

:)
 
Dropkickmurphys said:
might help if you know the model Dell it is, then you can look it up on the net?!
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I've already done that. The Dell website is absolutely bloody useless for maneuverability and ease of finding data. I done a driver search by entering the exact computer model into their website and it gives me drivers for both ATi model graphics cards (more than 1 type of ATi card I might add) as well as Nvidia drivers.

Kornowski said:
If you have DirectX installed, Go to start then run and type "dxdiag". That will show you information about ther computer as well as your video card type.

:)
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Hello matey :). I can do this without actually having the graphics drivers installed and it'll still output the model card to me? I always assumed that components weren't identified down to the last detail unless the drivers were installed (going from the device manager yellow question mark that is etc).

I'm a little rusty on the software side of PC's lately :D.

Rove.
 
Tried it. Didn't work unfortunately. Everything read as N/A so that didn't work unfortunately. Seems I might have to ring up Dell and ask what they stuck in this heap.

Rove.
 
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