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6 Ways to Find Motherboard Details in Windows without Opening the Hardware

Last Updated November 30, 2022 By Subhash D 2 Comments

If you want to know the type of motherboard installed in your system, it is not necessary to open the cabinet. There are few ways by which you can find the details about motherboard from the windows inbuilt utility. There is also some third party free software which can help you find not only the motherboard information but also about the other vital parts of the system. So whether you want to upgrade the system or need some driver updates, finding a motherboard number is easy by following these simple tricks.

Windows Inbuilt Utilities

System Information

You can know the hardware details by using the system information in windows OS. Search for system information or just type msinfo32 in run window (by pressing Win+R)

system-information

In the system summary, you can find the Baseboard motherboard manufacturer and model number along with other hardware details. You can also find the details about other computer hardware components under the components heading.

Dxdiag

The DirectX diagnostic tool is widely used to find the information about DirectX components and other drivers installed on your system. It also gives the details about the motherboard type and its model number.

Press Windows key and R keys on the keyboard and type dxdiag in the run window to open the direct X screen.

direct-x

Using Command prompt (CMD)

The command prompt is another way to know the model of motherboard. Right click on the start menu and open command prompt. Now type the following command

wmic baseboard get product, Manufacturer, version, serialnumber

You can also copy the above command and paste it in front of C:/>

Third party Apps

CPU-Z

This is one of the best and popular hardware monitoring software. It gives you detailed information of all the hardware parts of the system. You can select motherboard, RAM, graphics and other parts to get the details.

Download for windows

Download for Android

cpu-z-software screenshot

Speccy

If you are eager to know the installed parts of the computer or laptop, this is the best software you can rely upon. You can either look at the summary or go deep into each hardware component. It also helps you resolve many issues related to overheating since it displays the temperature of some vital components like CPU or GPU.It has a simple user interface that lets you overview and detailed reports of each hardware part.

Download

screenshot of speccy hardware details

Belarc Advisor

This is free software which creates a detailed profile of the complete system. It will display the results in a web browser. It shows the details of operating system, Motherboard, RAM, CPU, Network adaptor, hard drive, number of users, printers installed, GPU, anti-virus status and much more.

Download

belarc-advisor-screenshot

Find the hardware information without opening CPU case.


These tips to know the hardware details of the system are quite useful for customer support engineers to diagnose the issues or upgrade the hardware or software drivers. All the tips and external software are compatible with windows 7, 8.1, 10, vista for both 32 and 64-bit architecture.

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About Subhash D

A tech-enthusiast, Subhash is a Graduate Engineer and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Founder of it4nextgen, he has spent more than 20 years in the IT industry.

Comments

  1. Samiul says

    May 24, 2018 at 12:11 am

    Great information, But are those third-party apps are really reliable? Please let me know.

    Reply
  2. Brian says

    August 31, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    In my 20 years of IT experiance, I have used all of those apps/methods and they were all quite accurate and useful. Because I use the CCleaner app (unrelated to this article) that is made by Piriform, and I also just like the look of it, so I often use Speccy for this type of task. They are all great options. I hope that helps you Samiul and any others that

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