Video Card Registration

To register your video card you have to take the computer apart and pull your video card out because the model # and serial # are on the back of the card. I can do that no problem but it is time consuming and annoying as hell. Is there a program like CPUID or something that can read that information on your video card so you do not need to take your computer apart?

I wish companies would quit this practice because you forget about writing that stuff down when you build your system and then find out you need it once you are online and are filling out the registration only to realize you have to shut down your computer and take it all apart again just to register.

To register your video card you have to take the computer apart and pull your video card out because the model # and serial # are on the back of the card. I can do that no problem but it is time consuming and annoying as hell. Is there a program like CPUID or something that can read that information on your video card so you do not need to take your computer apart?

I wish companies would quit this practice because you forget about writing that stuff down when you build your system and then find out you need it once you are online and are filling out the registration only to realize you have to shut down your computer and take it all apart again just to register.

HeyDoYaThang

I takes like 1 minute -_-Daytona_178

Guess how long it took? I thought it would take maybe 15 minutes but it took over half an hour to do. I have speaker cables, video cables, power cables running everywhere behind the desk. Problem is sometimes they fall down between the desk and the wall when you unplug everything. It is pretty dark and hard to seen in that narrow space without a flashlight and with cords running everywhere. I try to rest heavy weights on the cables so none fall down but one did fall down. But I plan ahead and have a metal coat hangar that I bent and converted into a hook device for cables so took less than a minute to fish that cable out.

Not only did I have to pull out the video card but I had to pull out the sound card because ther is no way my hand could fit in the tiny space to plug the power cables back in. The card is huge. The 8800 GTX barely fit in my case and the 260 is even bigger. I also had to unplug the hard drives and several cables which were twist tied to keep nice air flow as well as keep any lose ones away from spinning fans. Any twist ties you remove you also have to put back on.

Then you have to write down the numbers. Fortunately the first ones were large and rather easy to read. The same could not be said about the second set of numbers. With a trouble light and a magnifying glass it was no problem....except for one letter which was pretty much impossible to make out. Called my brother and we both studied it and tried to guess what it was. One holding the light the other the card and magnifying glass. We were not sure if it was a v or maybe an m but then I noticed the sequence of numbers and letters and because of the brand of card I got it hit me what the letter must be.

So it was probably closer to 45 minutes to do everything. That includes about 2 minutes of cleaning up some dust with the vacuum. I could easily cut that time in half or more if I had to do so again but sometimes things come up that you don't expect. So the myth that it only takes about a minute to do...totally busted.:D

it should have had the number on the box. unless you got it oem card.firedrakes

It is retail and came with the Far Cry 2 game. I just realized I didn't have to take the computer apart lol. I think I found the UPC code on the box. So I went through all of that for nothing. Oh well at least everything in the case is a little more organized this time. :P

Maybe you didn't have to go through all that, but at least you learned something. :)

It's still BS that they don't make it simpler.