What's in my computer?

For a correct status you need some OS in order to load some some "system checker" and proceed from there. Your best bet is to find some DOS level pgm. but many common yrs. ago have gone away. One, I used was QAPlus. I suggest using google and keywords, "system checker" or similar for hits and that can be used at DOS level to keep it as simple as possible. -OR- a commerical pgm. that lauches from a bootable CD and bios set to boot from CD. Here's a lionk to a very helpful pgm., but may not be as redesirable but will prove your system boots, look at the boot-up sequence to see what gets loaded and then its after status, but its Linux based. Don't worry, it a whole bootable process from the CD once you burned the .ISO image to a CD burner. You want KNOPPNIX, pick that version and d/l it, however its a big d/l, have broadband access(friend?, library? with CD burner?)

http://www.linuxiso.org/ find KNOPPNIX, click link

good luck -----Willy