I have a computer and need to know specs on it. It doesn't have an OS on it so I can't check online.?

Question

It has one fan on the top, one on the left side (if you are looking at it), and one on the back of it. It has 4 slots for drives. On both sides, it has some sort of X-looking symbol with small air holes above and below it. It has 4 USB ports, two in front and 2 in back. It also has 7 slots for ethernet, etc. It has has 2 slots under the drive area for something that I don't know what goes there. It has 2 slots for memory and is PC100. Upon opening it, there is a fan on the inside, enough room for 4 total hard drives, and the board has "ECS Elite Group" written on a part of it.

Personally, I think it is some sort of gaming comp but would appreciate any and all info on it or where to find some. Please no stupid responses. Thanks!

I was told by a friend who had this that he ran the latest Halo and other top games on it just recently and the graphics were great.

Where can I find the model number on it? It has a serial number on the back of it and some other number that starts as EA= on it.

And the slots for ethernet I said above, I didn't mean plug ins but actually slots for cards to expand on (wireless, etc.)

Answer 1

It may well have been a gaming computer at one point. Not anymore. If you are sure of the memory spec at PC100, it's ancient and not of any real use anymore. Nice try on describing it though, too bad you've described a lot of other PCs of similar designs.

ECS is a manufacturer of motherboards, maybe if you could find a model number written somewhere on it, that'd be about the only thing you could do.

Well, the question is, does it turn on at all? Is there a hard drive installed?

If you can turn it on, use another computer to download a live edition of Linux, Knoppix will do. Once you've done that and burned the ISO file to a CD. Set this computer to boot from the optical drive in the BIOS and boot Knoppix. It will be able to at least identify SOME of the hardware installed, including processor, memory and graphics.

In this case it doesn't matter if there is a hard drive or not but if there is one, Knoppix should be able to see it as well.

Other than that, it may have played Halo just fine but Halo is a four year old game. I'm just saying it might have been great in its day but that probably isn't the case any more. Until you can confirm what this thing has, I will tend to think that it was good in the past but probably isn't up to the task of running FEAR, unless your friend played that on there as well, in which case, I retract my statement.

I really know of no easy way to identify hardware without going through an OS or operating system. All current ECS motherboards seem to have the model number and version right near the memory slots, for example... look at this picture, http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.asp?Image=13%2D135%2D006%2D02%2Ejpg%2C13%2D135%2D006%2D03%2Ejpg%2C13%2D135%2D006%2D04%2Ejpg%2C13%2D135%2D006%2D05%2Ejpg%2C13%2D135%2D006%2D06%2Ejpg&CurImage=13%2D135%2D006%2D04%2Ejpg&Description=ECS+915PL%2DA2+%283%2E1B%29+LGA+775+Intel+915PL+ATX+Intel+Motherboard+%2D+Retail

You will be able to see the model number to the left and below the processor and above the DIMM slots. All I can suggest you do is look in the similar location or for a similar string of numbers.