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Understanding some subtle points about devices can help alleviate (at
least in some cases) the inevitable frustration caused by hardware
that doesn't work properly due to improper
configuration.

Device Manager

Exercise caution when using Device Manager: by making improper
changes to your hardware resource settings, you can easily render
your system inoperable. Make sure you have an understanding of
computer hardware configurations before attempting to manually change
these settings.

Make changes to hardware resource settings sparinglywhen you
manually change a device setting, the change becomes fixed and leaves
WS2003 less flexibility when assigning remaining resources to PnP
devices.

Don't use Device Manager to disable a device, such
as your hard drive, that is necessary to start WS2003 or you could be
in trouble!

Before you try uninstalling and reinstalling a PnP device that has
stopped functioning, simply try rebooting the system to see if the
problem corrects itself.

Uninstalling a device doesn't remove the device
drivers from your hard disk.

Add Hardware

You may need to be logged

on as an Administrator to install a
PnP device if user interaction is required during the installation
process. You must be logged on as an Administrator to use Add/Remove
Hardware to install a legacy (non-PnP) device.

If you encounter errors when installing a PnP device, check Event
Viewer for more information on PnP events.

If you install a legacy device, you also manually specify the
resource settings (IRQ, I/O, and so on) for the device. This means
that if a resource conflict that involves the device arises
afterward, WS2003 can't reconfigure the settings
that you configured manually. This is a good reason for using only
PnP hardware with WS2003.

Group Policy can prevent this wizard from running on a computer
belonging to a certain domain.

Power Options

Additional tabs may be
displayed by Power Options on
certain machines. For example, laptop computers may show an Alarms
tab that can be used to configure an alarm to warn you when your
battery is about to run out.

On portables, you can specify one scheme for battery use and another
for AC use.

Make sure that you save all your work before you enter (or allow your
machine to enter) standby mode, since any data stored only in
physical memory (RAM) is lost when standby occurs.

Servers should not generally be allowed to enter standby mode since
they are often in demand 24 hours a day.

A command called powercfg can be used to configure
power options from the command line. First introduced in XP SP1, this
command is intended mainly for laptops.

System

If you specify that the Hardware Profile menu is displayed for zero
seconds, the menu is not displayed and the default profile is loaded
automatically. You can override this by pressing the spacebar during
startup.

You can also enable or disable specific services for a given hardware
profile by doing the following:

Administrative Tools Services right-click on a service Properties Log On select a hardware profile Enable or Disable

System Information

When you first have your
computer up and running, use
System Information to print a complete report of the hardware
configuration, and file this report somewhere safe. It may be useful
later on should hardware problems occur. Make sure you update this
report whenever you install new hardware or reconfigure existing
hardware.

See Also

Administrative Tools ,

Automatic
Updates , bootcfg,
date, driverquery,
mode, net
time, shutdown,
systeminfo, time