Finding out a video cards make and model?

[gizmo1990]

I'm going to be installing a fresh copy of xp on a friends machine and I've thought of a puzzling question...

Once xp is installed is there any way to find out the make and model of a graphics card without opening the case up and having a look?

Would it simply be a matter of running xp's search program? I've never tried it before as I've always known my cards details.

Anyone?

[EvilBoris]

go to system : device manager and it'll be under the display adapters.

You'll need to do this BEFORE you do the format

[Spatial]

Boris just beat me to the punch

But XP should detect whatever card is in there automatically (at least it has every time I've changed mine)

[gizmo1990]

go to system : device manager and it'll be under the display adapters.

You'll need to do this BEFORE you do the format

Of course! Lateral thinking, doh!

Cheers guys.

[kernow]

that wont really tell you THAT much about the card

booting a livecd and typing lspci -vv would though