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From DOS, Windows, Windows 9x / XP Windows NT, and OS/2

March 1, 2009

You can use the following procedure to identify your video card.

From a command prompt type the “debug” command and hit enter. You will leave the C:> prompt and be put in the debug’s “-” dash prompt.

C:> DEBUG

At the dash prompt type “d C000:0010” and hit enter.

C:>debug

-d  C000:0010

You will be given some out put in text in to the far right hand side of the output. In this text output you will see the name, though possibly broken up, of your video card.

Here is an example of the debug procedure done on a 9FX Motion 771 with the S3-968 chipset and the 2.05.15 bios revision:

C000:0010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-10 02 00 00 00 00 49 42   …………..IB
C000:0020  4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 6F-6D 70 61 74 69 62 6C 65   M VGA Compatible
C000:0030  20 42 49 4F 53 2E 20 00-BB 66 F0 01 A3 01 F0 09    BIOS. ..f……
C000:0040  09 FF 00 02 4E 75 6D 62-65 72 20 4E 69 6E 65 20  ….Number Nine
C000:0050  56 69 73 75 61 6C 20 54-65 63 68 6E 6F 6C 6F 67   Visual Technolog

C000:0060  79 20 20 20 20 20 20 20-20 20 20 39 46 58 20 4D   y       9FX M
C000:0070  6F 74 69 6F 6E 20 37 37-31 20 20 20 20 20 20 20   otion 771
C000:0080  20 20 20 0E 20 4C 65 74-20 69 74 20 62 65 20 36     . Let it be 6

By hitting “d” and enter again at the dash prompt you will see a continuation of the above output which will identify the chipset (in this case 968) and bios version (shown here as 2.05.15).

-d

C000:0090  38 2E 2E 2E 00 28 63 29-31 39 39 35 20 4E 75 6D   8….(c)1995 Num
C000:00A0  62 65 72 20 4E 69 6E 65-20 56 69 73 75 61 6C 20   ber Nine Visual
C000:00B0  54 65 63 68 6E 6F 6C 6F-67 79 20 43 6F 72 70 2E   Technology Corp.

C000:00C0  0D 0A 41 6C 6C 20 52 69-67 68 74 73 20 52 65 73   ..All Rights Res

C000:00D0  65 72 76 65 64 0D 0A 00-23 39 2D 39 36 38 20 42   erved…#9-968 B

C000:00E0  49 4F 53 20 56 65 72 73-69 6F 6E 20 32 2E 30 35    IOS Version 2.05
C000:00F0  2E 31 35 0D 0A 00 28 63-29 31 39 39 35 20 53 33    .15…(c)1999 S3
C000:0100  20 49 6E 63 20 56 65 72-73 69 6F 6E 20 32 2E 30   Inc Version 3.0
-q

C:>

By hitting the “q” key ( for quit ) and then enter, you will exit the debug session and return to the “C:>” command prompt.

Note: From Windows 3.1x or Windows 95 you can also do the following:

Check STATUS in HawkEye control panel. Click on STATUS, make note of information listed for Product Name, and Processor Type.

Compare the information gathered from either HawkEye or DEBUG to the chart below, this will indicate which Number Nine Product is installed in the system.


Card Name
Chip/Processor Name
GXE
S3 928
GXE 64
S3 864
GXE 64 PRO
S3 964
Vision 330
S3 764 (TRIO)
GXE64/S3 TRIO
S3 764 (TRIO)
Motion 331
S3 765 (TRIO V+)
Motion 531
S3 868
Motion 771
S3 968
Motion 772
S3 988 (ViRGE VX)
Reality 332
S3 325 (ViRGE)
Imagine 128
Imagine
Imagine 128 Series II
Imagine II
Imagine 128 Series II e
Imagine II