Identifying An Unknown PCI Card

Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and ME users can look at their registry to determine the manufacturer or model of a PCI device installed in their computer. To do this follow the below steps, if you do not with to edit the registry and want to use a different program skip to the next section.
Open the registry by clicking start, run, and typing regedit.
In the Registry Editor go into the below registry keys

Windows 95, 98, and ME users
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
Enum\
PCI\

Windows 2000 users
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
SYSTEM\
ControlSet0001\
Enum\
Within the above key you should be other folders similar to the below example.

VEN_5333&DEV_8901&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_16
As can be seen in the above example you have a lot of useful information that can be used to identify the card. In this example the VEN aka Vendor is 5333. Doing a search for this Vendor on the PCI database shows that this particular PCI device is a "S3 Graphics Co. product." You can find a link to the PCI database.

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