about the latest ubuntu

[Brent Harding]

Oh, OK, I heard of a tool for Windows, just not sure if the 98 variety. I 
will maybe have to see, otherwise next time I get sighted help over, we will 
have to see what error the live CD gives and what kind of motherboard is in 
there, if the tag is easily accessible.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <talmage at somtel.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu


>I don't know of any, but that's not to say there isn't such a thing.
> If you have sighted assistance, than the easiest answer is probably
> to open up the case and look for the data tag on the motherboard.
> If assistance isn't readily available, you may want to go to the web
> site for AOpen and see if you can find specs for their older systems
> to compare them to your's.
> Use factors like slots (how many, ISA verses PCI, is there an AGP,
> etc.), how many memory slots are there, what is built-in (video,
> audio, network), does it have USB and if so how many, does it have
> serial and if so how many and what style- DB9 or DB25), etc.
> The only problem with this approach is you're not always assured of a
> match even though the info is available, as sometimes even the same
> model motherboard may have slight variations.
> As someone else suggested, you may want to consider pulling 1 of the
> memory modules and taking it to a local computer shop to see if they
> can tell you what it is, or maybe just get the name & numbers of it
> and do a google search on those.  The number you would want would
> probably end with either 128 or 256, depending on whether you
> presently have 1 or 2 modules installed, and I guess for that matter
> if there are 4 slots and they're all populated it would end with 64.
> If you pull the memory, be careful and don't force anything, don't
> touch the bottom edge, and put it in some type of static proof bag.
> If you can't come up with any specifics on the type of motherboard,
> and you end up buying memory locally, and you get something larger
> than 256MB, make sure they are willing to give you your money back if
> it doesn't work.  My old Dell notebook for instance has 2 Dimm slots
> and won't take larger than 256MB modules.
>
> HTH
>
> Dave
>
> At 03:50 PM 4/4/2007, you wrote:
>>I lost the manual and CD for the motherboard. I only know that AOpen made
>>it. Is there a good software tool I could run from an Oralux or other
>>talking rescue disk that identifies the model number of the motherboard 
>>and
>>type of ram? At least if I knew what it was, specifications might be able 
>>to
>>be found online.
>
>
>
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