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05-06-2010, 11:04 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Germany
Posts: 779
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Any Linux Live system (Knoppix [-derivates], and stuff like that) is good way to access the necessary hardware informations; for example "lspci -nn" will give you informations about all PCI related devices like your chipset + the IDs of the components or "cat /proc/cpuinfo" will give you some information about the supported instruction sets of your CPU, so that you might have some closer idea of what kernel you might need to select... 
If you do not want to look into this, CPU-z for Windows will at least give you some very basic informations.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
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AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD
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