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2007-01-26 17:05:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
If you know the identification of your motherboard you should be able to easilly look it up on yahoo or google.
This info is usually available on the black start up screens as your computer boots but before windows is actually loaded into memmory. It happens very fast.
2007-01-26 17:11:04 · answer #1 · answered by special-chemical-x 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
feel brave??
Take the cover off and look
under the cpu fan, there's a white square where the cpu sits in
that's your socket, it says on it "SOCKET ###"
you may have to take the cpu fan off to see
theres a clip that attatches the heat sink (the waffle looking block) to two sides of the white square.
it'll get easy to mount and demount with a bit of practice, but pay attention to what your doing and dont get intiminated)
you might even be able to see it with the cpu fan in place
if you have no white square under the CPU fan, or no cpu fan altogether, but you have a big black block sticking upright out of the motherboard, it's a slot
if you have nothing, then you dont have an upgradable computer, and you wont have a socket (or a slot)
examples are some models of dell, compaq, hp ,and ibm (there's other's but these are most common)
2007-01-27 02:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by Kalvin G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the manual that came with your computer. If you don't have one, open up the case and look for the manufacturers name and model number on the board. They all have web sites and they do put info like that on them.
2007-01-27 01:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be in the manual for the motherboard.If you don't have a manual, try the website of the company that built it.They might be able to help you.
2007-01-27 01:14:19 · answer #4 · answered by Hibba 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
type in the motherbord name and model number in google and go to the manufacturers website and look at the stats.
2007-01-27 01:10:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋