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  • November 26, 2000 at 11:23 am #2086638

    video card memory identification

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    by techrep · about 23 years, 10 months ago

    I have an assortment of video cards that have been replaced or otherwise thrown aside. MOST of them do not show a BIOS screen at startup that states the amount of memory on the card. Anyone know how to determine that?

    Most interested in RAGE IIc and RAGE Pro, also Intel 740

    thanks.

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    • November 27, 2000 at 12:00 am #3864501

      video card memory identification

      by paulfr2 · about 23 years, 10 months ago

      In reply to video card memory identification

      Check out the Manufacturer’s website (i.e. http://www.ati.com for the rage video cards or http://www.intel.com for the intel video cards.)

      The RageIIc I believe has 4MB’s of RAM, not sure about the Intel 740.

      Yep ATI has a great website for that kind of information, just checked it out myself.

      I’m sure Intel does as well.

      Let me know if this works or not for you.

      Thanks,

      Paul
      paulfr2@home.com

    • November 27, 2000 at 10:27 am #3863019

      video card memory identification

      by tbradley · about 23 years, 10 months ago

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      Sometimes its just impossible to see any identifications, so if all else fails…

      Get ahold of Dos 5.0 – 6.22, make a bootable floppy, and run MSD. It will tell you

      failing that, use good old debug

      1. From a DOS prompt, Win 3.x, Win9x, WinNT, or Win2K command prompt type DEBUG and press Enter.
      2. A single dash will appear at which point type DC000:35 and then press Enter (DC000:50 may also work for newer cards).
      3. You may need to type D at the second dash and press Enter for all of the information to appear.
      4. You will observe the following screen:

      ( screen is omitted ), but it will tell you name of the card, model, memory etc

      above was found on S3 web site http://www.s3.com

      • November 27, 2000 at 10:32 am #3863017

        video card memory identification

        by tbradley · about 23 years, 10 months ago

        In reply to video card memory identification

        forgot… use q at the final – to exit debug.

        also, msd can be found on the win95 cdrom in

        x:\other\msd.exe ( x is cdrom letter )

      • November 29, 2000 at 11:51 am #3862291

        video card memory identification

        by techrep · about 23 years, 10 months ago

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        most helpful of all answers. only one gets credit. I ended up using dxdiag (installs with DirectX drivers).

    • November 29, 2000 at 7:40 am #3862386

      video card memory identification

      by robert young · about 23 years, 10 months ago

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      If the cards have an FCC ID number, check out http://www.windrivers.com. They have an excellent search engine where you input the ID number and it “should” direct you to the correct page with drivers, info etc on your specific card.

      Regards
      Bob Young

    • November 29, 2000 at 11:51 am #3862289

      video card memory identification

      by techrep · about 23 years, 10 months ago

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