Mystery video card... what could it be?

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dannitohoot

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Ok, so my friend handed me a video card the other day. "I can't use this, it's a PCI-e card"... I dunno where he got it from. He doesn't remember what brand it is... No idea. It's got a red board, but there are no logos on it anywhere. The only brand names written on it are for the ports and processors, but nothing that screams "I was made by___." The part number and serial number stickers are still on the board, so I should be able to figure out where it came from right? How can I find out what kind of card it is based on that? I know it's not ATI or NVidia, so those options are out.

The P/N is: 88-106-019180

First one to find out what it is wins...
Well you just win; can't be a prize for everything, right?
Of course, if you got any advice, I'd appreciate that too.
 
Why not just plug it into a MB? If Nvidia (you will see bios post) of the type of video card it is. If ATI you can see it once you load windows. The 88-106....wont help anyone cause its probably reference board.
 
Gainward have red PCB's for video cards, could be one of them ?

if you really want to know what it is, put it in your pc and on bootup in the top corner of your screen it will usually tell you the name of the video adaptor, this is just seconds before it completes POST and starts to boot from the harddrive, but you can pause the screen with the Pause Break Key.

EDIT:

someone already mentioned this seconds before me, ahwell.
 
It could be one of those other gpu manufacturers... Like XGI or matrox
 
I have a Sapphire X1950 Pro in blue. Not all are red ,not sure what it could be a picture would be nice. Thanks.
 
Let me guess - does it have little black square/rectangle things on it, and even smaller silvery-black things around it? And some golden lines, oooh and the little golden fingers at the bottom? and uhhh the big silver metal plate on the end?
 
Yea, I don't have any PCI-e slots on my MB, but I'm lookin at gettin a new comp here soon. When I searched the P/N, I never found any links to anything of use. As far as an FCC number, no idea where to find that... I didn't see anything like that on here. I know it's a graphics card cuz it has graphics ports... duh.

I used like 4 cameras tryin to get some decent pics... I'm sick of piss poor digital cameras that insist on using the flash or are just plain broken.
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The only two pictures that we needed were the blurry ones -- what's the serial # on that sticker?
 
Well, the brand is Foxconn, so...

... I went through their entire freakin site to find nada. rawr

That is one ugly board. Looks like a Radeon 9200SE I used to have, a really weird 'L' shape.

EDIT: It looks like it's using GDDR2 and since it is on PCI-E, it has to be within the last 3 to 4 years.
 
Red Falcon said:
Well, the brand is Foxconn, so...

... I went through their entire freakin site to find nada. rawr

That is one ugly board. Looks like a Radeon 9200SE I used to have, a really weird 'L' shape.
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How do you know the board is foxconn? Foxconn makes all those connectors and plugs you see, not necessarily the vid card itself....foxconn name is all over most video card adaptors, they are a huge oem supplier of parts like that.
 
TheRapture said:
How do you know the board is foxconn? Foxconn makes all those connectors and plugs you see, not necessarily the vid card itself....foxconn name is all over most video card adaptors, they are a huge oem supplier of parts like that.
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Oh yeah, good point. Heh, forgot about that. :eek:
 
It says it right there on the fans!!! Voodo6. Wow...y'all are blind.

Psyche. Hehe. Send it to me man!
 
It is an MSI product or at the very least some other brand that was allowed to be sold in Australia.

http://www.softwaredriverdownload.com/n1996_board_driver.html

http://www.msicomputer.com/support/certificate/hardware.asp

From the looks of it, it is probably a low series Nvidia 7xxx card with 128Mb of ram. It could possibly have an ATI chip on it like maybe a 9200se.

It probably came out of some OEM build or from a computer store that sells white box stuff.

I bet I could find out more if I had a clear picture of both sides of the board... stickers MUST be readable or all numbers typed in and referenced to what stickers the numbers go with.

There should also be some other number/letter combinations on the board itself. Those would help the most.

And from what I have seen in the past.. a lot of FCC numbers printed on low end stuff are bogus.
 
dannitohoot said:
I used like 4 cameras tryin to get some decent pics... I'm sick of piss poor digital cameras that insist on using the flash or are just plain broken.

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You just don't know how to use a digital camera. The cameras are fine. It's the camera man. Use an external light source so the damn camera can actually focus man! Also, use macro mode if you have it!
 
cyclone3d said:
It is an MSI product or at the very least some other brand that was allowed to be sold in Australia.

http://www.softwaredriverdownload.com/n1996_board_driver.html

http://www.msicomputer.com/support/certificate/hardware.asp

From the looks of it, it is probably a low series Nvidia 7xxx card with 128Mb of ram. It could possibly have an ATI chip on it like maybe a 9200se.

It probably came out of some OEM build or from a computer store that sells white box stuff.

I bet I could find out more if I had a clear picture of both sides of the board... stickers MUST be readable or all numbers typed in and referenced to what stickers the numbers go with.

There should also be some other number/letter combinations on the board itself. Those would help the most.

And from what I have seen in the past.. a lot of FCC numbers printed on low end stuff are bogus.
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It could be any ATI or a couple of Nvidia based lowend cards. What's throwing me off is that it appears to have two DVI ports when most of the low-mid range offerings that I've seen always had one DVI and one VGA (or only one of the either).
 
And the top port is usually feed with a ribbon cable.

Its not an 9250, I don't think those ever made it to the PCIe bus. It might be a 2400/x300 part. It is certainly a low end card. The heatsink isn't large enough for a higher end card, and there aren't enough ram chips. I don't know what the OPs requirements are, but I wouldn't want this card.

Try to find someone with PCIe. It would be the easiest way.
 
Foxconn makes the connectors for tons of products including motherboards and graphics cards so those foxconn engravings on the connectors are from Foxconn, but the card isn't necessarily.
 
I'm pretty sure it's a radeon, somewhere between a X300, up to a x1550. The X300 being the most likely one.

I've seen heatsinks that look just like that on a number of MSI cards too.
 
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