How to find the model of your motherboard
It is very inconvenient when you try to reinstall Windows and start wondering how to find what is the model of your motherboard in order to download the necessary drivers from the Internet. This usually happens when you lose the user’s manual and CD with drivers for your motherboard. Therefore, in this post, I will give you some simple tips that might be useful to you.
You can find the model and version of the motherboard with programs like CPU-Z, Everest or PC Wizard. For example: to see information about the motherboard in CPU-Z just start the program and click the Motherboard tab.
If you can’t find any application that can do the job or you don’t have access to the Internet to download it, the next thing that you can do is to open the computer’s case and to look for the model near the PCI slots, AGP slot, PCI-express slot or between the processor and the RAM slot, as it is shown in the picture below.
Be sure to check the documentation that comes with your computer or you may lose your warranty. In case if you can’t open your computer you can see the model name at the computer startup. Use the key “Pause Break” on your keyboard (when you see the first BIOS POST screen) to stop loading the system and see what is the model. With newer motherboards that can be quite difficult because they pass through the Welcome screen very quickly, even before the monitor is started, so to try to press the key (immediately after the start) without waiting for displaying a picture and wait. If you fail the first time try again.
