I'm not that familiar with the inner workings of windows or Belarc, but 
Windows environment somewhere, probably from the cards, and motherboard 
gets enough information to install the correct drivers. If you change a 
card, the previous driver is not installed, and the new one is indicated 
as hardware found, and installs the driver, or at least tries. I don't 
have a motherboard with installed video, but do have Intel motherboards 
with on board audio, and Belarc picks those up. I haven't ever looked at 
Belarc when a driver wasn't installed to see what was there. Interesting 
point to pursue. At the moment I'm involved with some important house 
maintenance issues, and that's where my priority is.

Vitaliy wrote:
> "Carl Denk" wrote:
>> Many of these video setups are by one of the major Graphics people like
>> ATI or Nvidea (sp). Use something like Belarc advisor to determine what
>> the hardware really is.
> 
> Belarc Advisor is pretty neat. However, where does it get info about the 
> hardware? Woulnd't the video driver have to be installed, in order for it to 
> find out what video card is installed?
> 
> Vitaliy 
> 
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