Identifying your Computer Hardware

Often when questions or reports of problems which may be hardware or driver related are posted, you could be asked to submit certain system information so that some more technical members can help with finding solutions.
However, sometimes accuracy in correctly identifiying hardware can be difficult, not everyone is familiar with PC hardware.

A complete system hardware information/identification software is available for free as the very excellent 'PCWizard':
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/icons/icon2.gif http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php
No installation necessary if you dl' the .zip version (also runs as a portable app from USB flash drive etc).

thank you, i used SIW before but this is just as good, maybe better

I've used PCWizard for several years. Looking forward to the 2009 release.

It is the most accurate program that I have found for identifying new and ancient hardware. :D

I usually do Start/run/dxdiag. I think most of the information is there. In any case it's fun to do some of the tests in there.

Steve I use "Belarc Advisor" but it has to be installed but it give a lot more info.

Yes that's a good one Peter. But I have to be careful what I install on customers PC's therefore portable software which runs from my 2.5" USB Notebook HDD is perfect ;)

I have just used this to identify and repair a problem on a friend's PC. Thank you very much.

I have IE ver 7 on my machine - under Help on the menu just under the about.. is a button for system info, it lists all hardware, software, drivers and my latest urine test.... Neatly hidden by MS

Yvonne

Hi sledger.

Nice idea for providing us information about PCWizard. Would you mind to let us know more about this? Thanks!

More information and the latest version is available here.