System Information: Hardware
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Hardware
In this dialog box, data on your computer is shown. There is one page for hardware, one for software, and a third for networks. Some of these items will display garbage under Windows NT, since NT does not offer BIOS calls any more!
CPU Type Type of the micro-processor.
BIOS Version Revision date of the system BIOS (used for disk and screen access). On some computers, this information cannot be retrieved.
Math. coprocessor The coprocessor supports the main processor with numeric calculations, mainly in spreadsheets like Excel.
Display driver Shows the current display driver. This can be either a board-specific (i.e. ATI ULTRA) or a general purpose (VGA or Super VGA).
Display resolution Shows the width and height of the screen in pixels, followed by the number of possible colors.
Current printer Printer selected as the default.
COM/LPT-Ports Number of serial and parallel ports. Serial ports are used to connect mice and modems, parallel ports mainly for printers.
Installed RAM Main memory of the computer. The first number is the memory accessible from DOS, the second number is the amount of extended memory, which can be accessed from Windows.