I've pulled the card out, checked everything all I can find is the P/N number which I think stands for part number on the back plate and a warranty sticker with a number above it on the same sticker. On the spine where it connects to the mobile there are two green stickers with long numbers on them but nothing that starts with S/N followed. The Nvidia GPU s a processor that is licensed to various graphics card manufacturers. I would imagine that you could trace the processor to a range of graphics cards. The individual processor serial code probably can be traced by the graphics card manufacturer. But I doubt that is available to you. 21 votes, 69 comments. 654k members in the nvidia community. A place for everything NVIDIA, come talk about news, drivers, rumors, GPUs, the.
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Whether you're looking to upgrade or are curious about your computer's specifications, you may want to know what video card, or GPU, is in the computer. Some PCs have integrated graphics, and some have a video card. In either case, the instructions below help you determine and view the graphics device powering your computer's video output. To proceed, choose your preferred method from the list below, or read all of the sections and proceed from there.
TipTo determine how much video memory the video card has, see: How much memory does my video card have?
Device Manager
One of the quickest ways to see what type of graphics processor is in your Windows computer is through the Windows Device Manager.
- Press the Windows key, type Device Manager, and then press Enter.
- In the window that appears, expand the Display adapters section.
- The GPU is listed under the Display adapters section. For example, the picture above shows a Radeon RX 580 Series video card is installed in the computer. In this example, only the model of the video card is listed. You'd have to know that Radeon is a brand of the ATI company.
Third-party program
There are many third-party programs that detect the video card in your computer. We recommend installing and using the CAM program by following the steps below.
- Open an Internet browser and go to the CAM page.
- In the middle of the screen, click the button.
- Once the download has finished, install it from your browser and open the program.
- You will see a window open that looks like the image below.
- From here, you can see which GPU your computer has in the middle section of the main screen. For example, the picture above shows a Radeon RX 580 Series video card, or GPU, is installed in the computer. In this example, only the model of the video card is listed. You'd have to know that Radeon is a brand of the ATI company.
Using a third-party program such as CAM not only allows you to identify the video card but also measure important settings. As shown in the picture, the video card temperature, load, clock speed, and fan speed are also seen.
OEM lookup
If you have an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) computer (e.g., Dell, Hewlett Packard, etc.), locate the serial number or service tag number, and then look it up on the manufacturer's website.
At boot or POST
Some computers may display the video card or chipset during the POST. Try rebooting the computer and as it is booting up, press the 'Pause / Break' key to temporarily halt the computer's boot process and read the text on the screen. If you are unfamiliar with video card manufacturers or chipsets, write down some of the company names you see and search our video card drivers section for that company.
Open the computer
Unplug everything from the back of the computer, open the case, and look for any visual identification printed on the video card or motherboard. Many times you can find the manufacturer's name, model number, serial number, or other unique information that identifies the video card or video chipset you have. The picture below is an example of an older AGP video card (newer computers use PCIe).
TipIf your video card is on the motherboard, you can find the motherboard video chipset by identifying the motherboard make and model and reading the motherboard documentation.
FCC identification number
If you cannot locate a manufacturer or model number of the video card, but you see an FCC identification number, we recommend performing a search using it. Additional information about FCC numbers and how to search for information about them is on our FCC definition.
Debug routine (older computers)
NoteNew versions of Windows no longer include the debug command. If you are running Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 10, this recommendation will not work.
- At the C:> prompt, type the following command.
- At the - prompt, type the following command:
- After typing the command above, several lines of text similar to the following text appear.
The example dump above gives you enough information to determine the make and the year of the video card. On line four in the above dump, you can see the make of this video card, which is nVIDIA TNT. If you were to search online, you would find that nVIDIA TNT is the Riva TNT graphics card chipset (VGA). In our example, line five is the video card version, and line six is the Copyright, which is the year the graphics card was manufactured.
- If you cannot capture any information that sounds like the video card, you can also type the following:
This command gives you a dump similar to the example above. However, it may have additional information about the video card.
NoteIf the video card is onboard, you may get the motherboard name or chipset. If you have an onboard video card, get the video drivers for your chipset manufacturer. The video chipset drivers are available through the motherboard manufacturer.
- When you are ready to exit the debug prompt, type quit and press Enter to exit back to the MS-DOS prompt. If you want to close the MS-DOS window, type exit and press Enter.
Additional information
- See our video card definition for further information and related links.
There is a million things that can go wrong with a Windows computer and it depends on where you get the problem that can help determine how it can be fixed. For instance, it can be very problematic when you get a freeze, blue screen or automatic restart while Windows is booting because usually the most information you will get is a rather cryptic BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) message which sometimes is pretty useless. You can however, pick up clues about a problem during boot by watching for when it occurs.
For instance, if you get a problem or crash at a point after you see the Windows login or welcome screen, programs starting with Windows would be the first place to look. A problem very early in the boot process, before Windows has really had a chance to start could be a problem with the Master Boot Record or the files Windows calls upon to start the boot process.
A different point in the boot process could be a driver issue, most drivers are loaded around the time you see the Windows logo animation and a crash here is possibly a corrupt, wrong or bad driver. If you can boot into Safe Mode but not into Windows, chances are a third party driver could be the culprit. If the video driver hasn’t been uninstalled then it’s not that difficult to find out what the video adapter is to download a new driver.
If you aren’t at the computer or the video driver has been removed then it could be more difficult to identify which video driver needs reinstalling. It’s also no fun trying to work in VGA mode with a low resolution while trying to find out. Of course, if the internet is available you can download a 3rd party utility such the portable information tool CPU-Z which can identify the CPU, mainboard, memory and graphics adapter, or use a bootable disc such as Hiren’s Boot CD which has a number of tools that could help.There’s another method where you can manually detect what video card you have which doesn’t require the use of any other tools but those present in Windows.
Identify Your Video Adapter in Windows 32-bit
This is achieved by using the built-in Windows debug tool. There is a rather sizable disadvantage to this method, and that is it doesn’t work on 64-bit Windows versions. No 64-bit version of Windows has ever included this tool and if you try to run it, you will just get an error.
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The dubug.exe does however work on all 32-bit versions of Windows and is even still included in Windows 8 32-bit. To find your graphics adapter:
1. Open up the DOS command prompt by pressing the Win key+R, type cmd into the search box and press Enter.
2. Type debug in the command prompt and press Enter. This will start the debug prompt, indicated by a dash “-” at the beginning of each line.
3. Now type: d c000:0000 and press Enter. There are plenty of suggestions around the web for starting the search at a different address range such as c000:0040. This will most likely work just as well but starting at the beginning simply means you won’t miss any information by starting from an address too far down.
If you don’t spot anything that looks like a video adapter name, simply type d again at the prompt and press Enter to load in the next block of data. You might have to use the d command a few times but eventually the debugger should show what you can identify as the video adapter.
As you can see from the square boxes above, the video card has been identified as an Nvidia Geforce 7600GT, the arrows show the commands that were typed in. To get out of the debugger and back to an ordinary command prompt, simply type q and press enter.
This method is quite successful at getting the video adapter but is by no means foolproof. For instance several integrated graphics chipsets may only provide the motherboard vendor’s name and not the graphics chipset.
Find your Video Adapter Through WMI
Another way to get the graphics adapter which works on all versions of Windows including 64-bit is to gather the information through the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) component. To get the name of the adapter type the following into the Command Prompt:
wmic PATH Win32_videocontroller GET description
This will get the name of the adapter IF there is a driver installed for it. If not, it will simply show the standard VGA adapter. To get the hardware ID for the video, type in:
wmic PATH Win32_videocontroller GET pnpdeviceid
With the ID you can then search on websites such as Devid.info or The PCI ID Repository armed with this information and should be able to get the vendor and product name. The second backslash in the ID information and data after it is not needed to perform a search. There is also some other commands you can place after the GET argument such as “AdapterRAM” to get the size of the video memory in bytes, “Driverversion” will list any installed driver version, simply separate them with a comma for more than 1 argument at once. It’s worth reading the Microsoft Win32_VideoController supported arguments for a more comprehensive list.
So you don’t have to memorize any of the above commands, we have created a simple batch file for you to run. It will show you the name of the graphic adapter, the driver version, how much memory it has and its PNPdeviceId in a console window. Simply download and double click the .BAT file.
Download Get_Graphics_WMI batch file
These methods are obviously not going to be your primary way of gathering information about a graphics adapter, but is still useful to know if other options for you aren’t working.
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great information, I was trying to run DirectX and looking to see if I had hardware acceleration, but couldn’t even determine the video card/adapter! looked in registry (regedit.exe), HKLM video/Device0 etc, then MSINFO.EXE, then DxDiag etc, even download some supposedly sophisticated tools/utilities to identify “any” card – FAILED, but this didn’t —-thanks a bunch!
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