Identifying Your Video Card
Click START and go to RUN
Type in CMD and click OK
At the “black” screen type DEBUG <press enter>
At the – prompt type the below command: d c000:0040
After typing the above command you should receive several lines of text similar to:
The above dump this gives you enough information to determine the make and the year made on the video card. On line 4 you can see the maker of this video card, which in this case is a nVIDIA TNT, which would be the Riva TNT chipset. The next line you notice the version of the card and finally the line thereafter is the copyright or the year manufactured generally.
If you are unable to capture any information that sounds like the video card you can also type
-d c000:0090
The above line will give you a dump similar to the above example however may have additional information about the video card.
Note: If the video card is onboard you may get the motherboard name and/or chipset. If you have an onboard video card you should get the video drivers for your chipset. Commonly the video drivers / chipset drivers are available through the motherboard manufacturer.
Once you’re ready to exit the debug prompt type quit to exit back to the MS-DOS prompt. If you wish to close the MS-DOS window type exit.
