Carol,

        I found and have used the program provided at http://www.belarc.com. 
It appears to identify all component, hardware and software, that is on my box
it takes three or four minutes to download and run.  Well worth the time.  


On Thu, 04 May 2000, WolfRyder wrote:
> I've installed mandrake 7 twice trying to get LILO to work right. Right 
> now, I boot from the rescue floppy because LILO, which worked the 2nd time, 
> would hang up my login screen in Win98. I have multiple users on my puter 
> and where the user name and password goes, the whole thing would 
> just....sit there!
> 
> Also, my monitor, which is a Delta DE 570, I got used and have no specs. We 
> guessed on them on installation, but must have guessed wrong because my 
> bootup puts me in the default screen, not KDE, even though I selected it. 
> I'm figuring X didn't get configured right, but how do I do that when I 
> don't know the correct settings for my monitor? I've looked on the net to 
> try to track them down, but no luck. Found the webpage and all, but no specs.
> 
> suggestions? Yes, I've already thought of getting a new monitor.
> 
> Carol

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