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Finding About Your Hardware Details.

This is the slandered way of finding hardware details ..

Evey hardware has a thing called Hardware ID it has two Portions, one is Vendor ID and Device ID.

When you find these two you can easily find out every thing about your hardware.

This not need any kind of drivers.

You can search through sites like this for your informations.

http://www.pcidatabase.com/

In Windows You can find Your Hardware ID This way......

1. Open Device Manager (Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager)
2. The hardware whose drivers are missing will appear as Unknown device, so it's easier to locate the device.
3. Right click on the unknown device and click on Properties.
4. Under the Properties window click on Details tab and select Device Instance Id from the drop down box.
5. You should see a code similar to this
   
   PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27DC&SUBSYS_30868086
   &REV_01\4&1E46F438&0&40F0
6. The portion of the code after VEN is the Vendor ID and the portion after DEV is the Device ID. In this example:
   
   Vendor ID = 8086
   Device ID = 27DC

In Linux you can use

dmidecode | more and man dmidecode for more information