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Graphics Card Serial Number

  1. Graphics Card Serial Number
  2. Graphics Card Serial Number Cmd

Locate the invoice for your video-card purchase. Some technology vendors list the serial numbers of the items you purchase on the paperwork that documents what you bought. Tips Video Card Serial Number Lookup. Use a GPU test utility (see Resources) to find out more information about your graphics card's hardware and performance capabilities. There are 3 different types of serial number: Example 1: 134 SN. Example 3: (most common) (1823214 (21)SN. Online Registration.

This page contains information on how you can identify an unknown PCI card. If you are a Microsoft Windows user and have an 'Unknown device' or 'Unknown PCI device' in Device Manager, follow the steps below.

Microsoft Windows users

  1. Check the sticker label on the back of the graphic card. The serial number is listed below the barcode. Check the sticker label on the side of the package box. The serial number is listed after the word “Serial No,” “SSN,” “S/N,” or “SN.”.
  2. Re: How to identify graphic card? « Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 10:05:06 pm » If you are able to find the product number of it that would be useable, the serial number is only used by gigabyte.
  3. ZOTAC graphic cards are primarily identified by the Product Name, SKU Number, and Part Number (PN). Besides the SKU, other details to identify the exact model from the features on the card: Bus Interface: PCI Bus, AGP bus, PCI-E bus interface GPU type: GTX760, GTX980, GTX980Ti Memory Size and Type: 1GB / 2GB / 4GB, DDR3 / DDR5 Cooling Type: Passively.

Microsoft Windows users can look at the registry to determine the manufacturer or model of a PCI device installed in their computer. To do this, follow the steps below. If you do not want to edit the registry and want to use a different program, skip to the next section.

Through the System Information

  1. Open the Windows System Information (msinfo32) tool.
  2. Click Components to expand the available components on the computer.
  3. Click Problem Devices and locate the PnP ID for the device you want to identify.
  1. As shown in the example above, you have lots of useful information to identify the card. In this example, the VEN aka vendor is 5333. Searching for this vendor on the PCI database shows that this particular PCI device is an 'S3 Graphics Co. product.' You can find a link to the PCI database on our motherboard links.

Through the Windows registry and early versions of Windows

Graphics card serial number cmd

Graphics Card Serial Number

  1. Open the registry by clicking Start and in the run line type regedit.
  2. In the Registry Editor, access the registry key below.

Windows 2000 users
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
ControlSet0001
Enum
Windows 95, 98, and ME users
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Enum
PCI

  1. In the key above, see folders similar to the example below.
  1. As shown in the example above, you have lots of useful information to identify the card. In this example, the VEN aka vendor is 5333. Searching for this vendor in the PCI database shows that this particular PCI device is an 'S3 Graphics Co. product.' You can find a link to the PCI database on our motherboard links.

Other software solutions

If you visit the PCI database page, it contains several third-party solutions and links to software to identify a PCI device in your computer. You can find a link to the PCI database on our motherboard links page.

Hardware solution

If you cannot determine the PCI card using software, the next best solution is to examine the card. It is common that the card has the manufacturer and model number printed on the card. If no model or manufacturer is listed, look for another identification on the card, such as an FCC identification number. For additional information about FCC numbers, see our FCC definition page.

Additional information

Graphics Card Serial Number Cmd

  • See the PCI definition for further information on PCI and related links.