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Questions tagged [plug-and-play]

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Pulseaudio: how to rescan audio devices?

When adding a USB device to my system (I deliberately run no modern stack for device detection), Pulseaudio can't pickup it without restart (pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio --start). Is there an option for, say, pactl, which will make pulseaudio to…
kagali-san
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USB storage devices no longer recognized after installing VMware tools

I installed the VMware tools within Mac. Since then any USB external storage drive that was once recognized is now not recognized. In Driver Manager I receive this message unknown device. I been trying to tackle this issue and I have not found a…
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Why does simple plug and play hardware sometimes include drivers?

I have about 7 devices (speakers, mouse, etc.) that are all USB. They all came with CD's containing drivers for it. My question is, why do they? All 7 of these devices have run just fine on every computer I've ever owned (XP, Vista, Ubuntu, 7)…
Freesnöw
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What does an ACPI BIOS configure during boot?

When a PC boots with an ACPI BIOS, what does it exactly do? I understand that the point of ACPI is to allow the OS to control hardware resources and power management but before the OS is loaded does ACPI configure just the devices needed to boot…
RJSmith92
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Force every external USB storage device (USB HDD, USB flash drives of any brand, etc.) to be assigned the same letter G:

I know the "Disk management" (diskmgmt.msc) way to assign a driver letter such as G: to a (currently physically present) specific disk or device. But here my question is a little bit different. How to force every USB external storage device (USB…
Basj
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Win10 constantly making Plug n Play Connect/Disconnect Sound

My machine a few months ago started making noises constantly like someone was continually plugging and unplugging a USB device (~10x/hour). It's affecting my gaming so I finally started trying to figure out what it was. I wrote a quick script to…
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Can I somehow speed up Windows's USB Plug n play function (on a USB Hub/switch)?

I'm using a KVM-switch like setup to share my keyboard and mouse between a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I have a Logitech Mouse and Corsair (K95-RGB) Keyboard (ironically both devices made and optimized for windows with only windows-side…
Cestarian
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PCI Expansion card resource allocation by a Plug-and-Play BIOS

Plug-and-Play BIOS spec says that if you have a PnP BIOS, it can configure the hardware. This means that your BIOS reads the resource requirements of all devices and configures them (allocates bus-resources to them). Does a PnP always allocate…
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Is it possible to automate a driver change on Windows for a plug&play peripheral?

Is it possible to automate a change of driver for a same peripheral, under Windows ? Typically to switch between two ones. (I'm talking about the kind of driver which doesn't require the computer to reboot, typically). I have a peripheral for which…
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Philips 288E2 DDC/CI does not work. Connected to Intel UHD Graphics 750 via DisplayPort (or HDMI) on Windows 11,

I am trying to control brightness on my Philips 288E2. Monitor connected to Windows 11 using a Intel UHD Graphics 750 via DisplayPort or HDMI. (I've tried both) I've tried various desktop programs, scripts, all report error. For example Monitorian…
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Launch a .exe when a specific USB device is connected

I would like to launch a .exe when a specific USB device is connected (for instance a Akai LPK25 USB MIDI keyboard). Is there a simple way to do this with Windows?
Basj
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Is it possible to have preloaded usb drivers for device

I have a KMV switch on my desktop that I only use to switch keyboard and mouse from one pc to the next. Whenever I press the button to switch computer the first computer plays the sound indicating that the usb has been unplugged and remove while…
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When does plug and play detection occur in the sysprep process?

I am working on a Windows 7 image for my organization. We use a Token based activation package which requires installation during audit mode. Here is my process On my Master computer: Using our base image disc, install OS. [I cannot boot to…
Mike Christiansen
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Non PnP driver as plug-n-play

Since Windows 8 Device-manager doesn't show non plug and play drivers; Is is possible to trick windows into treating them as PnP drivers?
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How was the world before plug-and-play?

Unfortunately, I haven't really existed for long enough to know how computers functioned before PnP and the PCI stuff existed. According to various googles, hardware had to be manually physically "configured" with jumpers and switches and…
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