How can one tell manufacturer of vidcard?

[Brangwen]

I have a 1 meg pci vidcard using Cirrus Logic chipset 5430/40. I'm attempting to find latest drivers, as current driver does not support acting as secondary display in dual monitor mode. I went to the Cirrus Logic site where it states "Cirrus makes chips, it does not maunufacture vidcards, etc." One must know the <u>manufacturer</u> of the product using the chip to search out updated drivers. Hmm. Any ideas which 1 meg pci vidcards circa '97 - '98 used Cirrus chipsets?

Thx.

Brangwen

By the way, dual monitoring is extremely cool. But presently having to use 17" GeForce AGP "powered" monitor as secondary! 15" Cirrus Logic 1 meg pci carded monitor for primary. I tried other way around, but as mentioned above, pci drivers on this card do not support use as secondary. May just need a card that <u>does</u> <u>support</u> seconday monitor.


[This message has been edited by Brangwen (edited 07-21-2001).]

[Hellmund]

Take the board out and check over the whole PCB for a white rectangle with writing in it. I've got an old 1mb Cirrus logic lying around and it had that, same as the old 1mb trident I've got.

[eagle1]

Just try to find the drivers by the chipset! That's how I keep track of the super 2meg Trident that I have.!!!

I have a Trident 9680 and I just install whatever driver I find (at least for Win95) and it has worked for me!!

Windows 98 recognizes the card automatically so I haven't tried any drivers with it.!

[Brangwen]

Thx, I'll give that ago and "look under the hood."

Brangwen

[Hellmund]

My brother just got a digi-cam a few hours ago so I'll dig the card out and take a pic to show where it is, a friend took either the cirrus or trident card when he stepped on the 4mb S3 virgeDX/GX I gave him. It was a shame about the only S3 card, paid $100 brand new for that and it was only 2mb, that was back when you could add Vram modules the extra 2mb cost me about $40.....my how times have changed.

[De Joker]

Look for an fcc id number, and then go to www.windrivers.com and search for the manufacturer by doing an fcc search.

[prexaspes]

With that chip, I've used cirrus drivers and it worked fine.

[arklab2]

De Joker has the ticket, but you can also just go to the source at http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/

and search their data base.
Often it will have a link right to the manufactures web page and there tech phone number, too.

Good Luck

[deadkenny]

The card manuf. is usually displayed when you boot, isn't it? Anyway, you can also get the info from something like Sandra. The drivers don't necessarily tell you anything, since one manuf. drivers might work for another's card etc. I have an ASUS card, but I'm using nVidia drivers, so the drivers don't tell me anything except for the chipset (GeForce2 MX).

[Brangwen]

Thx for all of your ideas! On boot, the adapter is listed as Cirrus Logic. Hmm.

I'll look more closely for markings and numbers in order to utilize the members' aforementioned reference sites.

Brangwen