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Identify hardware - The guided tour
Start > HW installed > HW type unknown
| Please download the utility of your choice and run it. At the time you receive the corresponding device IDs for
your hardware you can proceed identifying your hardware by following the links given in the column proceed with. |
Help
Leaving the first years of "wild" computing behind most manufacturers found it difficult to
recognize the hardware that was built in computers. Components could be used interchangable. So a standard
for hardware identification was born simply to be superseeded by newer ones. Most common is a built-in
hardware routine on the main chip of every component which sends its ID on request over the bus it is connected to.
VLB, EISA, PCI and NuBUS IDs are assigned to the chip manufacturer not the manufacturer of the whole component.
PNP, PCMCIA, USB and FireWire IDs are mostly assigned for the whole component e.g. a video card.
If you need a bootable system diskette read this article at PLASMA online.
If you want to know more about PCI ID instruction read this article at PLASMA online.
If you want to know more about VLB read this article at PLASMA online.
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