Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jim Battle wrote:
> Jim Leonard wrote:
> ...
> 
>> Yep, I get funny looks from others when I use debug to determine what 
>> video chipset is in unknown machines so I know what updated drivers to 
>> download. (Seriously -- in XP, do start->run->cmd then type debug then 
>> type "d c000:0000" enter then enter again.)
> 
> 
> OK, I'll bite:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>debug
> -d c000:0000
> C000:0000  55 AA 7A EB 4B 37 34 30-30 E9 4C 19 77 CC 56 49   
> U.z.K7400.L.w.VI
> C000:0010  44 45 4F 20 0D 00 00 00-84 02 9B 0E 00 00 49 42   DEO 
> ..........IB
> C000:0020  4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 6F-6D 70 61 74 69 62 6C 65   M VGA 
> Compatible
> C000:0030  01 00 00 00 B0 10 B2 EF-30 38 2F 30 37 2F 30 33   
> ........08/07/03
> C000:0040  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
> ................
> C000:0050  E9 E7 E4 00 B0 10 21 04-03 D0 30 7E 3C 21 C0 80   
> ......!...0~<!..
> C000:0060  00 00 00 00 10 00 00 80-22 00 A5 8B E9 D0 0D E9   
> ........".......
> C000:0070  D7 0D 50 4D 49 44 6C 00-6F 00 00 00 00 A0 00 B0   
> ..PMIDl.o.......
> -
> -
> 
> You are a genius if, from that, you can tell what card I have.  (answer 
> below if you scroll down far enough)

It has been mentioned that different companies put the info in slightly 
different places.  Look at the next couple hundred bytes of output.

Pecae...  Sridhar