Know Your PC To Verify Some Primary
Information Before Buying New Computer
Today computer is an
indispensable part of our daily life. We should aware some primary
information about hardware.
This information positively help someone to buy a new computer even you
should not be fraud by technician who will assemble ur pc.
Let us see
how we will get these fundamental information about our
computer..............
At first right click on" My Computer" in windows operating
system. Then right click on properties. Now under general tab you
will get the information of processor, its speed & size of RAM. The
information may be arranged such as------
computer:
Intel(R)
Pentium(R) CPU2.66GHz
504 MB of RAM
Now it is clear that the computer configured Pentium 4 with 2.8GHz
processor & 512 MB from which 8MB for VGA memory & remaining 504MB
system memory.
Let us see another---
Start--->programs--->accessories--->system tools--->system
information--->system summery.
At right pane details information about----- OS Name, Version, OS
Manufacturer, System Name, System Manufacturer, System Model, System
Type,Processor,BIOS Version/Date, SMBIOS Version, Windows Directory,
System Directory, Boot Device, Hardware Abstraction, Layer
Version, User Name, Time Zone,
Total Physical Memory, Available Physical Memory, Total Virtual
Memory, Available Virtual Memory, Page File Space, Page File
Now right click on "My Computer"--Properties--Hardware--Device
Manager. Now get the information of your computer's Hard Disk,
Floppy Drive,Mouse,Keyboard,Monitor Display,Network
Adapter(LAN)Audio,USB Port. Also get the Version & Name of
Manufacturer, To Know more details double click on each device
& click properties. These information also available in BIOS.
There is another important feature of Device Manager that you will
get the signals/information about the device which is not
functioning properly. Suppose sound is not functioning properly,
there should be sign of yellow colored
? on sound
of device Manager if sound driver not installed. This means sound
will be o.k. only after install sound driver.