help me IT wizards!

April 3, 2008 4:11 PM

I have about 10 working computers with clean XP installs from our office that we are trying to sell on Ebay... is there a website or program I could run that would show me all of the parts inside the machine it was run on? The motherboard, graphics card, CPU, ram etc...

I know how to find this all out manually, but it seems like there should be some program to do it for me. Then I can just copy / paste the output into ebay and not worry about getting some model number of a part messed up...

Any ideas?

posted by outsider to Computers & Internet (11 answers total)

Belarc Advisor?
posted by wilko at 4:19 PM on April 3, 2008 [2 favorites]

System Information for Windows or Aida32 should do what you're looking for. They both generate reports for your computer's specs.
posted by DanW at 4:36 PM on April 3, 2008

Belarc is free and ridiculously thorough. I recommend.
posted by everichon at 5:04 PM on April 3, 2008

Thirding Belarc. It's incroyable.
posted by vers at 5:06 PM on April 3, 2008

I find that just googling the model number usually does the trick.
posted by winston at 5:52 PM on April 3, 2008

You could try CPU-Z, is a freeware.
posted by annapanna at 7:54 PM on April 3, 2008

Also voting for Belarc Advisor, have used it for this purpose myself.
posted by tiamat at 8:05 PM on April 3, 2008

Seconding CPU-Z.
posted by Nattie at 11:16 PM on April 3, 2008

I don't know if this matters to you, but that Belarc advisor license seems to preclude free use for most organizations.
posted by trondant at 11:16 PM on April 3, 2008

Thirding CPU-Z by a long mile.
posted by Phire at 2:09 AM on April 4, 2008

if directx is installed (it almost certainly is) run dxdiag.
posted by namewithoutwords at 3:31 AM on April 4, 2008