How can I find my sound card's information in OSX?

[bladesilver]

I'd have to swap hard drives to put my windows install back into my PC because it's already full of hard drives, so I would rather have a way of finding out my sound card's vendorID and such without having swap HDs. Is there a way I can find it on the sound card itself? I'd rather pull that than an HD. Otherwise, are there programs in OSX that can tell me that information or do I need to boot into windows just for DXDiag?

[Gdfath3r]

I'd have to swap hard drives to put my windows install back into my PC because it's already full of hard drives, so I would rather have a way of finding out my sound card's vendorID and such without having swap HDs. Is there a way I can find it on the sound card itself? I'd rather pull that than an HD. Otherwise, are there programs in OSX that can tell me that information or do I need to boot into windows just for DXDiag?

 

 

You can do with this: Hiren's Boot CD....just about 60 megs and has lots of utils:

 

Partition Tools

Partition Magic Pro 8.05

Best software to partition hard drive

 

Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0

Popular disk management functions in a single suite

 

Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1057

Universal tool for partitions

 

Partition Commander 9.01

The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature

 

Ranish Partition Manager 2.44

a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.

 

The Partition Resizer v1.3.4

move and resize your partitions in one step and more.

 

Smart Fdisk 2.05

a simple harddisk partition manager

 

SPecial Fdisk 2000

SPFDISK a partition tool.

 

eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3

XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition

 

GDisk 1.1.1

Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more.

Disk Clone Tools

ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002)

Best software to clone hard drive

 

Norton Ghost 8.2

Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)

 

Acronis True Image 8.0

Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning.

 

Partition Saver 2.80

A tool to backup/restore partitions.

Antivirus Tools

F-Prot Antivirus 3.16b

Very good virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)

 

McAfee Antivirus 4.40

a virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)

Recovery Tools

Active Partition Recovery 3.0

To Recover a Deleted partition.

 

Active Uneraser 3.0

To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems.

 

Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.10

To Recover data that has been deleted/virus attack

 

Winternals Disk Commander 1.1

more than just a standard deleted-file recovery utility

 

TestDisk 6.2

Tool to check and undelete partition.

 

Lost & Found 1.06

a good old data recovery software.

 

DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100

An excellent data recovery software.

 

Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64

Another excellent data recovery software with many other options.

 

PhotoRec 6.2

File and pictures recovery Tool.

Testing Tools

System Speed Test 4.78

it tests CPU, harddrive, ect.

 

PC-Check 5.50

Easy to use hardware tests

 

Ontrack Data Advisor 5.0

Powerful diagnostic tool for assessing the condition of your computer

 

The Troubleshooter 7.02

all kind of hardware testing tool

 

PC Doctor 3.0

a benchmarking and information tool

 

Test Cpu/Video/Disk 5.6

a tool to test cpu, video, and disk

 

Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0

a tool to test Hard Disk Drive

RAM (Memory) Testing Tools

DocMemory 2.2b

RAM Test utility

 

GoldMemory 5.07

RAM Test utility

 

Memtest86+ 1.65

PC Memory Test

Hard Disk Tools

Hard Disk Diagnostic Utilities

Seagate Seatools Desktop Edition 3.02

Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools

Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04c

Maxtor PowerMax 4.21

Maxtor amset utility 4.0

Maxtor(or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1

Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.30

Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0

Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 2.00

Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28

IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.05

IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.99

Gateway GwScan 3.15

MHDD 4.6

 

HDD Regenerator 1.51

to recover a bad hard drive

 

Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57

Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.

 

Norton Disk Doctor 2002

a tool to repair a damaged disk, or to diagnose your hard drive.

 

Norton Disk Editor 2002

a powerful disk editing, manual data recovery tool.

 

Active Kill Disk 1.1

Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.

 

HDAT2 4.02.05

main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices

 

SmartUDM 2.00

Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.

System Information Tools

Aida16 2.12

a system information tool, extracts details of all components of the PC

 

PCI and AGP info Tool

The PCI System information & Exploration tool.

 

System Analyser version 5.3j

View extensive information about your hardware

 

Navrátil Software System Information 0.58.6

High-end professional system information tool

 

Astra 5.11

Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant

 

HwInfo 4.9.7

a powerful system information utility

 

PC-Config 9.33

Complete hardware detection of your computer

 

SysChk 2.46

Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC

 

CPU Identification utility v1.8

Detailed information on CPU

 

CTIA CPU Information

another CPU information tool

MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools

MBR Work 1.07b

a utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions

 

MBR Tool 2.1.100

backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write...

 

DiskMan4

all in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more

 

BootFix Utility

Run this utility if you get 'Invalid system disk'

 

MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1

BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR

 

Boot Partition 2.50

add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader

 

Partition Table Doctor 3.0

a tool to repair/modify mbr, bootsector, partition table

 

Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1

a multi boot manager

 

Bootmagic 8.0

This tool is for multi boot operating systems

BIOS / CMOS Tools

CMOS 0.93

CMOS Save / Restore Tool

 

BIOS Cracker 4.6

BIOS password remover (cmospwd)

 

BIOS Cracker 1.4

BIOS password remover (cmospwc)

 

BIOS Utility 1.35.0

BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more.

 

!BIOS 3.20

a powerfull utility for bios and cmos

 

DISKMAN4

a powerful all in one utility

 

UniFlash 1.40

bios flash utility

 

Kill CMOS

a tiny utility to wipe cmos

MultiMedia Tools

Picture Viewer 1.94

Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes.

 

QuickView Pro 2.56

movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx.

 

MpxPlay 1.53b

a small Music Player for dos

Password Tools

Active Password Changer 3.0

To Reset User Password on windows NT/2000/XP/2003 (FAT/NTFS)

 

Offline NT/2K/XP Password Changer

utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.

 

NTPWD

utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.

 

Registry Viewer 4.2

Registry Viewer/Editor for Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP

 

ATAPWD 1.2

Hard Disk Password Utility

NTFS Tools

NTFS Dos Pro 5.0

To access ntfs partitions from Dos

 

NTFS 4 Dos 1.4

To access ntfs partitions from Dos

 

NTFS Dos 3.02

To access ntfs partitions from Dos

 

EditBINI 1.01

to Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition

Dos File Managers

Volkov Commander 4.99

Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support

(Similar to Norton Commander)

 

Dos Command Center 5.1

Classic dos-based file manager.

 

File Wizard 1.35

a file manager - colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc.

 

File Maven 3.5

an advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file

transfers via serial or parallel cable

 

FastLynx 2.0

Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability

 

LapLink 5.0

the smart way to transfer files and directories between PCs.

 

Dos Navigator 5.9.0

Dos File Manager, Norton Commander clone but has much more features.

 

Mini Windows 3.11

Back to old days, use it as a file manager

 

Mini Windows 98

Can run from Ram Drive, with ntfs support,

Added 7-Zip which supports .7z .zip .cab .rar .arj .gzip,

.bzip2 .z .tar .cpio .rpm and .deb

Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor,

Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc...

Other Tools

Ghost Walker 2003.793

utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP

 

DosCDroast beta 2

Dos CD Burning Tools

 

Universal TCP/IP Network 5.4

MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based

network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based

network, it contains 85 different network card drivers

 

 

 

The interesting part for you is the System Information Tools.

You can download (freeware) from here: http://www.9down.com/story.php?sid=5990