Computer installation operating system driver installation: Second, hardware identification (a)

First, identify the hardware model

To install the driver, the first step is to know the hardware model, only the next can "the right medicine" ", according to the hardware model to get the driver, then install, to avoid the jokes of Zhang Guan Li Dai. Because if the installed hardware driver is inconsistent with the hardware model, the hardware may not be used, or the installed driver and hardware conflict, which may cause the computer to fail to operate normally.

To identify the hardware model, there are generally the following ways:

1, check the hardware manual

By looking at the hardware package and manual, you can find the corresponding hardware model. Details. This is the easiest and quickest way. After obtaining the hardware model, the netizen can access the motherboard manufacturer, chipset manufacturer or professional driver download site (such as Pacific Computer Network Download Center, Driver Home) to download the driver.

2, through the third-party software detection and identification

When the netizen's hardware manual can not be found, I recommend the use of third-party software detection to identify, this is for beginners Is a very simple and accurate approach.

There are a lot of software for detecting hardware, such as optimization master, super rabbit, EVEREST, HWINFO, etc. These functions are very powerful. Here, I recommend a hardware detection software Cpu-Z, which is a software that is popular among the majority of Internet users. According to the name, it seems to be a software related to the CPU, and yes, this is a powerful CPU detection software, but this does not prevent it from becoming an excellent motherboard detection software.

Download software: Cpu-Z

According to this software, you don't have to install it after decompression, as shown in Figure 1. Double-click "Cpuz.exe" to start the software. .


1 Double-click the Start Cpuz
shown in Figure 2, motherboard manufacturers, motherboard model, chip manufacturers, Northbridge chip models, Southbridge models in front of a simple background shows up. Test results: The main board of the author is produced by Asus, the model is "K8N-VM", adopts nVidia chip, the north bridge chip is: "GeForce 6100", the south bridge chip is: "nForce410/430". This is exactly the same as the author's motherboard parameters. FIG 2 CPUZ

board information detected

3, the boot information by identifying
we all know, the computer will boot when the self-test process, in the process Among them, the related information of the hardware will be displayed on the screen. Therefore, identifying the hardware model through the boot information is also a good way to obtain a hardware model.
The boot message appears for a short time, so when the required information is displayed on the screen, press "Pause Break" on the keyboard immediately, then the boot information can be fixed at that time, and then you can record The relevant hardware model information is available.
At present, the general network card and sound card are integrated on the motherboard. Therefore, as long as the display chip and the motherboard chip of the graphics card are recognized, then the public version driver can be found to solve the driver problem. When the device is turned on, three information screens will appear: video card information, BIOS information of the motherboard and all hardware information. Therefore, when booting, it is important to pay attention to the first and second information screens.
The first post-test information screen: as shown in Figure 3, the model number of the video card is "Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440". The display time of this screen is relatively short, so you should press "Pause Break" while you see this screen, so you can stay in this screen. With this information, finding drivers is a breeze.

Figure 3 Boot card information
The second boot self-test information screen: as shown in Figure 4, the motherboard manufacturer is "ASUS", model "K8N-VM"; chipset information display due to The difference varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.

Figure 4 BIOS information of the boot self-test motherboard
Here, I have three BIOS information about the boot self-test to discuss with you.
As shown in Figure 5, the motherboard manufacturer is "Gigabyte" (GO is Gigabyte's manufacturer code); the chipset model is "i440BX" and the manufacturer is Intel. FIG 5

motherboard BIOS POST Detailed information

6, the motherboard chipset "VT8377 /VT8237", the manufacturer is "VIA." FIG 6

motherboard BIOS POST information indicating two
FIG. 7, the motherboard chipset "nForce", the manufacturer of "NVidia"; motherboard manufacturers as "ABIT" (A1 is L Manufacturer's code for the technology).



























4, through chip identification
Chip manufacturers provide public version drivers for Internet users, so netizens can install drivers for individual machines by identifying the chip model.
(1), open the chassis, by observing the corresponding hardware such as graphics card, sound card, motherboard, you can get related chips such as graphics card core chip, sound card chip, motherboard chip and so on.
(2) According to the obtained chip model information, obtain the corresponding public version driver for installation.
This approach is believed to be a bit difficult for beginners.
5, other channel identification
Pacific computer network product library
set product introduction, quotation is equal to one. The author was very impressed with the personal motherboard model "ASUS K8N-VM", so he visited "Pacific Computer Network Product Library
" to get the motherboard information.
(1) Click on the “Mainboard” of the navigation menu, then go to the motherboard brand page and select “ASUS”.
(2), as shown in Figure 8, enter the product library "ASUS" brand page, type "K8N-VM" in the search box, and then click Search.

8 search for the appropriate model
(3), shown in Figure 9, the search results, click on the "product information."

Figure 9 Search Results
(4), as shown in Figure 10, enter the detailed introduction page of the "K8N-VM" product, the parameters of the motherboard are very detailed. Netizens can access the chipset manufacturer website (NVidia) or the professional driver download (Pconline, Driver House) website to obtain drivers according to relevant parameters.

Figure 10 Detailed parameters
So far, I have introduced five ways to identify hardware models, I hope you can gain something after reading!