See the three recipes for the configuration of your computer hardware

One of the most interesting questions asked by a friend who assembled a computer is: What is the configuration of this computer? Today, around this hot topic, the author makes a relatively easy-to-understand story for everyone, and hopes to be a newcomer to the computer who has read this article. Can have substantial help. In fact, the hardware configuration software is needed to view the computer configuration, but it is impossible to carry it at any time because of the reasons for carrying it. In fact, how can we do this? In fact, we can clearly understand the computer hardware when leaving the software. Configuration situation. Let's take a look at the three methods of computer configuration.

First, check the hardware configuration in the power-on self-test

After the machine is assembled, even if the operating system is not installed, the power-on test can be performed. In the screen of the power-on self-test, the hardware configuration is hidden. A brief introduction (because the boot screen flashes over, if you want to see it clearly, remember to reach down and hold the "PAUSE” key).

1. Graphics card information

The hardware that is checked first during the power-on self-test is the graphics card. Therefore, after the machine is started, several lines of text appearing in the upper left corner of the screen are the graphics card's “Personal Data”. Introduction. In the four lines of text, the first line “GeForce4 MX440……” indicates that the display core of the graphics card is GeForce4 MX440 and supports AGP 8X technology; the second line “Version……” indicates the BIOS version of the graphics card. We can update the graphics card BIOS version & ldquo; extract & rdquo; graphics performance, of course, this line of text will also change after the update; the third line "Copyright (C) & helip; … & rdquo; is the manufacturer's copyright information, The copyright period of the display chip manufacturer and manufacturer is indicated; the fourth line "64.0MB RAM" indicates the memory capacity of the graphics card.

2.CPU and hard disk, memory, CD-ROM information

After displaying the basic information of the video card, the second self-test screen that appears next shows more hardware information, like CPU model, frequency, memory capacity, hard disk and CD-ROM information will appear in this screen. The top two lines of the screen indicate the BIOS version of the motherboard and the copyright information of the BIOS manufacturer; the next text will be understood at a glance, of course, the motherboard chipset; the next few lines of text indicate the CPU frequency and memory. Capacity, speed. Oh, my CPU and memory are overclocked, so the frequency can be less formal; the following four lines "IDE……" indicate the devices connected to the IDE master-slave interface, including the hard disk model and optical drive model. Wait.

3. Motherboard information

There will also be a line of information about the motherboard at the bottom of the second self-test screen. The previous date shows the current BIOS update date of the motherboard. The symbol is the code used by the motherboard. According to the code, we can understand the chipset model and manufacturer of the motherboard. In the past, the middle of the lowermost text in the self-test screen of the old motherboard is marked with the motherboard chipset, which is mentioned above the self-test screen.

After the machine is started, press the “DEL” button to enter the BIOS setup page. In the basic information, you can also see the hardware information of the machine, which is no different from the startup screen.

Second, use the device manager to view the hardware configuration

After entering the operating system, you can also use the device manager and DirectX diagnostic tools to view the hardware configuration when installing the hardware driver. Let's look at how to use the device manager to view hardware information. Go to the desktop, right click on the "My Computer" icon, select "ldquo; Properties" from the menu that appears, open the "System Properties" window, click on "Hardware--Device Manager", at &ldquo All device hardware configured for the machine is displayed in the Device Manager. From top to bottom, the optical drive, disk controller chip, CPU, disk drive, display, keyboard, sound and video are arranged in order, and the bottom is the display card. To find out which kind of hardware information you want, just click on “+” in front of it to expand the content below it.

In addition to the general hardware information, you can learn more about the motherboard chip, sound card and hard disk working mode. For example, if you want to view the working mode of the hard disk, just double-click the corresponding IDE channel to pop up the property window. In the property window, you can check the device type and transfer mode of the hard disk. These are not available on the boot screen.

It should be noted that the device manager provided in the operating system before Windows XP can not be used to view the CPU operating frequency. Fortunately, we also have DirectX diagnostic tools.

Third, use the DirectX diagnostic tool to view the hardware configuration

DirectX diagnostic tools can help us test, diagnose and modify the hardware work, of course, we can also use it to view the hardware of the machine Configuration. Run the “System Information” window and find the “Tools--DirectX Diagnostic Tool” (or run Dxdiag.exe in the System32 directory under the Windows directory of the installation letter). You can easily view the hardware information in the window. Previous12Next page Total 2 pages