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Hardware idenifier??

Iomega Man · 2007-10-04 09:06:09

Hi all, Probably a silly question,but are there any utilities out there that you could run on a PC that would identify all hardware in the system so that you could download all correct drivers? Cheers..

04-10-2007 9:06am

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Iomega Man

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Hi all,
Probably a silly question,but are there any utilities out there that you could run on a PC that would identify all hardware in the system so that you could download all correct drivers?

Cheers..

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#2 04-10-2007 7:08pm

Capt'n Midnight

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part of PnP definition is that every device has a unique code that software/operating system can see to ideftify it.

despite all the hype about plug n' play this seems to be a well hidden fact.

this is a bit dated
http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm

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#3 04-10-2007 7:14pm

Iomega Man

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Hi Capt'n Midnight,

That looks good to me!!
Have a bit of a play around with that now,

Many thanks,much appreciated....

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