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Device Manager Equivalent in NT

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etlag

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Jan 15, 2001
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I'm new to NT Workstation - What is the NT equivalent to Device Manger in Win9X. I need to check what devices (video cards, NIC, etc.) and don't know where to look and how to change/remove the drivers.
 
There are several
first of all if its a Mouse or sound card look in control panel in the "Devices" this just lists the drivers that are running a particular item.

next look in Services again drivers that run an item
then you can click Programs, Administrative Tools, Windows NT Diagnostics,
Which shows how much RAM and IRQ’s and so forth

Do you have a particular problem?
DougP, MCP

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I was just asking a general question, but I have a system that keeps freezing up. I start it up, walk away and within an hour it locks up. I swaped out the video card ( from an 8mg card to a 32 mg card) but it still locks up. Since I don't know NT I don't know where to "tweak".
 
Same problem on two machines at work. I disabled power management in the BIOS and also changed settings in the software - power management - so the system doesn't 'stand by'.
 
I tried that, too, but it didn't make any difference.
 
I would like to disable a network card in NT. I have disabled the bindings but the access attempts to that card are still causing problems. Is there a Device Manager equivalent in NT for this?
 
Is there a reason why you haven't removed or replaced the card?
 
Check the event viewer under Administrative Tools???
 
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