Need to find a utility fast

[Geeky1]

Anyone know of a small (cd-or-floppy-size) utility that doesn't require installation (something like cpu-z, BIOSwizard, etc.) that can give me basically all the info sandra does?

I need:
Form Factor
Motherboard
Chipset
CPU
RAM slots (& type)
Installed RAM (total, # of modules, module capacity)
Video
Sound
SCSI/RAID
IO cards
Other cards
Hard Drive
Removeable Storage
Free PCI slots
Free ISA slots
Other free slots
OS
Network ID
Workgroup
Domain

I'm inventorying our computer systems @ work, and I don't want to take the time to open up each system and find out everything by taking it apart and looking at everything. I also don't want to install a program on 100+ computers. I don't care if the program is DOS or windows based- I can boot into dos if I need to- but I'd like to find something, and I'd like to do it before I get back from lunch. Any ideas?

[a2jfreak]

Don't know of any util like that. Better brush off your dusty C++ books and get crackin'! :D

[citrixmeta]

languard does it


you can scan your network and it will give you OS, service pack level, memory, network id, username, domain.


not sure if it will go into hardware detail.

[Geeky1]

Thanks, that means I don't have to fuxxor around with it to get all the lan info anyhow, which is good. I found this utility called "Cool Info XP" which is very interesting, but it wouldn't work for this purpose. However, I may be able to talk my dad (who is the system admin) into buying it- it's absurdly expensive tho ($2k for a site license) although a lot of pro-level software is substantially more...

[citrixmeta]

it also shows shares, printers, registry info, ports listening and lots more, you will be impressed, u can export the entire result into a HTML page.

give a range, let it scan

[profdlp]

One of my favorites:

Belarc Advisor (http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html)

HTML output desription of gobs of system details. :wave:

[CaffeineMe]

This has been posted before, Emergency Boot CD.

http://mirror01.iptelecom.net.ua/~ebcd/

Among the tools provided are a utility that displays MUCHO information about the machine that it is run on.

You might also try the Knoppix Linux distro on a bootable CD.

[Geeky1]

Bill, I tried the utility you linked to, and I can't for the life of me get the stupid thing to boot off the CD. If I disable all other devices except the CD as boot devices, it just comes back with "no os found". I've tried burning just the D/Led file, running the .exe in the file and burning just the file it creates, I've tried extracting the iso said exe creates and burning that, and I've tried putting everything in one folder and burning that. It just won't work for me. So apparently I'm not doing it right. Could you (or someone) please explain it to me because I can't create a bootable cd :crazy: :banghead:

[profdlp]

Geeky1 said
Could you (or someone) please explain it to me because I can't create a bootable cd :crazy: :banghead:
Go here (http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/).
:wave:

[CaffeineMe]

It's been a few months since I made this CD.

When I did it, I think D/L the RAR, used winrar to uncompress it to ISO, used Nero to burn to CD from the ISO, booted from the CD. Can you boot OTHER CD's on the PC in question?

Also, the page that profdlp lists is a winner also. GREAT stuff on that page (Thank you Bart, wherever you are!!)

[Geeky1]

I figured it out. It was just my stupid fooking laptop and windows xp's built-in burning sw. Grabbed one of the new office machines we just got, ran Nero and it works fine. Stupid XP. It only took me 2.5hrs to figure it out too... :banghead:

[CaffeineMe]

Did the util do the trick?

[Geeky1]

Looks like it. Like I said, I'm sick of taking everything apart. It looks like it has most of the info I need, so that's good. Thanks all.