How to find the motherboard manual without dying trying

How to find the motherboard manual ? Being farsighted is one of the most important qualities you can have. Surely we have all bought something in our lives and the first thing we have done is throw away absolutely all the papers that it brought with it… including the purchase receipt. Bad very bad. Today we will see how to find the manual for our base plate.

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Of course, this will only be valid in the case that we have purchased or have a motherboard model listed in the manufacturer's products. What can we do then with the boards of the laptops and computers that we buy already assembled? Well in this case, it is possible that we can also find the manual of the specific motherboard, according to the manufacturer. Otherwise, we will have to settle for the complete equipment manual if it exists.

How to find the manual of a motherboard that we have bought

First of all, we are going to consider the most feasible option to find, which will be to look for the manual of a plate that we have bought ourselves, of any generation, and that currently we do not have its box or accessories.

Identify model with the plate removed

Well, the first thing we will have to do is identify the make and model of the motherboard. How? Well, the easiest thing would be to make an eye inspection of the plate, in case we don't have it installed. I have dusted off an old glory that I have here to see if in the example we find the user manual. It is an Asus P5E-VM HDMI, yes, by those times having HDMI was the novelty.

If we do not see the name as such, we assure you that it will be somewhere, we will look for the product code or serial number. From this code it is possible that we can find it, so, for this, we will have to try with the numbers and letters that this code has.

In this specific case, the effective code that identifies the plate is 06-MBB7H0. If after this we do not obtain a result, it will be necessary to install the board and run some program.

Identify model with plate installed

Because in our case we do not have it installed, we will continue with an example with one that we do have. To do this, we will use a program that identifies what hardware on our PC. There are many free on the Internet: Aida 64, Everest, HWiNFO, CPU-Z, Speccy, etc.

In our case, we are going to use CPU-Z or Speccy, both very simple and free. To download Speccy we will do it from here, and CPU-Z from here. The installation is very simple, although we must read each screen to avoid installing advertising. Once installed, whoever it is, we are going to open them.

In the case of CPU-Z, we will have to go to the " Mainboard " tab and there we will see the make and model of the board.

In the case of Speccy, we will go to the " Motherboard " section and we will also have this information. In the example we have detected the Asus B150 Pro Gaming Aura.

Manual search on the Internet

Well now that we have the information about the plate, what remains will be to find it on the official page of the manufacturer. In the case of the example it will be Asus, both in the old model and in the new one.

We are going to go to support and we are going to place the model in the search bar. In theory of the huge list of matches, Asus should identify your product as the first, at least that's how it has been in our case.

Next, we will open the main page of the product and the support section. Virtually all manufacturers will be exactly the same. Then we will have to get into the Manuals and documentation section and download the one that is in our language.

Let's see a visual example of the main brands

It is shown that the operation is practically the same. So, knowing the model and manufacturer of the board, we will have practically no problem finding the manual.

Manual for notebook boards and pre-assembled equipment

In this case finding the manual for a plate is going to be more complicated. In the first instance we will continue with the previous method, identifying the characteristics of the PC. Let's take an example with a laptop to see what we can do.

In this case we only get the code 0RYVM9 as information from the board. If we try to find a manual for this board, we already warn you that there is not. At most, we could find a Data Sheet of the components that are mounted, such as the chipset or anything else that will surely interest us little.

So, what we will have to do is search directly for the complete PC user manual. In the case of the example it is a Dell Latitude E5440. No hassle, we just have to go to the manuals or support menu and we will get exactly what we want.

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On desktop PCs we will do exactly the same. The procedure does not have many secrets, it is only to be clear how to obtain the information we need. If you have had any problems with your board models, you have the comment box so we can help you out. We hope this short article has helped you.