A few months back I used a dos command to tell me what sound/video cards were running in a couple of old 486's. A coloured screen came up similar looking to dos shell. Can anyone tell me what it might be?
Also, if a 486 mobo uses an on-board graphics chip, can it generally be disabled in favour of a pci card?
The program your probably thinking of is: MSD....but AIDA16 is a better program.
If you stick a PCI card into a mobo with integrated graphics then usually the PCI card will take over and you won't be able to use the integrated card (this differs for some mobo's) until you either remove the PCI card or switch between the two in the BIOS.
wrote:The program your probably thinking of is: MSD....but AIDA16 is a better program.
It was not a seperate program that I had to install but a dos command. Thanks for the tip on the vid card.
MSD comes with DOS but it isn't integrated into the shell or anything. It's it's own little program in the DOS directory, MSD.EXE.
Thanks DOSfreak. Don't know how I knew about MSD a few months back (since I am a DOS newb). I can sleep in peace tonight now.
