WinXP Utility

[gus]

There are some utilities in linux like "lspci" that provide
information on
devices/controllers/cards in the system - useful if you need to find
the
right driver for a device. Is/are there OS functions or freeware
utilities
for Win XP that do the same thing?

$ lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT
(rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE
controller
etc
etc

 

[MartinC]

Assuming I have understood your request correctly, what you need to do is
the following:

Start/Control Panel/System
Open the Hardware tab and select the Device Manager button. This should give
the information you need.

Martin

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

From the run command type msinfo32 then press enter.

 

[Jim]

There are some utilities in linux like "lspci" that provide
information on
devices/controllers/cards in the system - useful if you need to find
the
right driver for a device. Is/are there OS functions or freeware
utilities
for Win XP that do the same thing?

$ lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT
(rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE
controller
etc
etc

Google ?

 

[3c273]

You might have a look at Craig's PCI Programs.
http://members.datafast.net.au/~dft0802/downloads.htm
PCI32 is a console program. "pci32 /?" for help.
Louis

 

[Paul]

There are some utilities in linux like "lspci" that provide
information on
devices/controllers/cards in the system - useful if you need to find
the
right driver for a device. Is/are there OS functions or freeware
utilities
for Win XP that do the same thing?

$ lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT
(rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE
controller
etc
etc

Everest, see DevicesCI.

http://majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

When a device is not identified, but you have Ven/Dev/Subsys to work
with, use this. PCI identities from Sourceforge. Everest
displays the Ven/Dev field as "DeviceID".

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

Paul

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

you can try run>msinfo32

also, you might try a
freeware called siw.

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[gus]

I may be wrong on this, but my impression is that WinXP tools like
Device Manager and msinfo32 identify devices only if the proper
Windows driver is already installed.

In some cases Windows doesn't identify the device and either installs
a generic driver (like "VGA generic") or installs no driver at all,
which
shows as an error in Device Manager.

In such cases my objective is to identify the device *so that* I
can look for the correct driver to install. Per suggestions in this
thread
I checked out EVEREST and Craig's PCI tools, and they seem to do
the trick.

Thanks!

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

well, msinfo32 does provide
additional details about the
installed components, and in
addition to the drivers.

but I couldn't say if any program
for windows can identify devices
that are not recognized by
windows in some form.

both suggestions, i.e. msinfo32
and siw were provided as
some possibilities.

unfortunately, I don't spend
to much time on incompatible
hardware issues, because
they are engineered with
exacting specifications that
benefit the manufacturer with
new sales for their
updated products.

however, it is not to say
that there aren't developers
that build drivers and may
know of utilities to help
identify components.

perhaps this link may
provide you with some
further possibilities:

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?form=MSHOME&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=developing drivers

 

[Gardier]

There are some utilities in linux like "lspci" that provide information
on devices/controllers/cards in the system - useful if you need to find
the right driver for a device. Is/are there OS functions or freeware
utilities for Win XP that do the same thing?

Why not boot from a small Linux live CD like Slax and use lspci?