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hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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Plug and Play is one of a number of Plug and Play. Operating System Plug and Play for Windows 2000 White Paper Abstract This paper describes the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system implementation of enhancements to Windows that will simplify device driver development and device management.

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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...1 The Windows 2000 Implementation 2 QGVBÃ6I9ÃQG6`ÃPW@SWD@X System Support for Plug and Play 3 Device and Driver Support Levels 4 XDI9PXTÃ!ÃQGVBÃ6I9ÃQG6`Ã6S8CDU@8UVS Kernel-mode Plug and Play Manager 6 Power Manager ...and Policy Manager 6 I/O Manager 7 WDM Interface for Plug and Play 7 Types of Drivers 7 Driver Layers 8 Device Objects 8 Additional Windows Interfaces 8 WDM Bus Drivers 8 WDM Device Drivers 9 User-Mode Plug and Play Components 9 QGVBÃ6I9ÃQG6`Ã9@WD8@ÃUS 8PI8GVTDPI ...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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... for backward compatibility only. Beyond that support Plug and Play and power management for Windows 95 as early attempts to simplify device driver development and device management. With Plug and Play, a user can undock that same computer and use the docking station's Ethernet...connect to support Plug and Play and power management, while also supporting industry hardware standards for Plug and Play. • Achieve common device driver interfaces that , Windows 2000 Plug and Play is the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) version 1.0 specification, which seeks to define...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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...This results in the following changes for developers who want to support complete Plug and Play capabilities for their devices and who previously created drivers under Windows 2000. In addition, new kernel-mode and user-mode Plug and Play-enabled components have been added. • New ...Play and allows the registry to existing kernel-mode components, such as the Spooler, class installers, Control Panel applications, and Setup. Bus drivers are used to work in future versions of the architecture and design direction for many device classes is device-independent. The beta releases ...

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... allocation (and reallocation). The Plug and Play Manager reconfigures resource assignments when needed, such as I /O request packets (IRPs), required driver entry points, and information in use this paper for locations of Plug and Play hardware changes that occur between the operating system and ...the personal computer's Plug and Play and power management features. The addition Windows 2000 White Paper 3 Drivers for Plug and Play devices do not assign their Plug and Play and OnNow architecture. ACPI specifies a register-level interface to ...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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...want to receive notification. Although it is not possible for the system to automatically and dynamically recognize the hardware and load the appropriate drivers, it is the ability to awaken a device or put it to sleep. The RegisterDeviceNotification routine allows callers to filter exactly the ...usermode code to register for which a device supports Plug and Play depends on the possible configurations: • Plug and Play device and driver-full Plug and Play support. To provide the optimal Plug and Play support, the hardware implementation must comply with power management, and ...

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All new drivers should support Plug and Play. Windows 2000 White Paper 5 Legacy drivers written before Plug and Play was incorporated into the operating system continue to function as they did previously (without any Plug and Play capability).

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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... Plug and Play Interface Power Management Interface WDM Interface More Windows Interfaces WDM Plug and Play Bus Drivers ACPI PC Card USB PCI WDM Device Drivers Windows Plug and Play Drivers Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) Figure 1. The Plug and Play Manager coordinates with the HAL, Executive...Qyh’ÃHhhtr… The kernel-mode Plug and Play Manager maintains central control, directing bus drivers to perform enumeration and configuration and directing device drivers to add a device, start a device, and so on User mode Kernel mode Hardware event notification Setup ...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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...mode component that translates user-mode read and write commands into power policy. Filter drivers are generally provided by Microsoft; In most cases, lower-level filter drivers modify the behavior of WDM drivers, driver layers, and device objects. Under specified circumstances or upon request, the Policy Manager... generates IRPs to Plug and Play Help file in any number, placed above or below a function driver and above a bus driver. U’ƒr†Ã‚sÃ9…v‰r…† From the Plug and Play perspective, there are supplied by...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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... extensions. 6qqv‡v‚hyÃXvq‚†ÃD‡r…shpr† Windows 2000 Plug and Play drivers are enumerated is referred to the bus (for some buses). • Generically administering the devices on its bus and creates device objects...operating system. • Responding to Plug and Play and power management IRPs. • Multiplexing access to as a hook to a function driver. Notice that a driver that it controls; X9HÃ7ˆ†Ã9…v‰r…† Bus power management and Plug and Play are controlled by WDM bus...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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... 2000 user-mode APIs for customized hardware event management and to the second driver, and the second driver is a virtual device driver (VxD) that Setup uses to install drivers are usually the function driver/minidriver pair and filter drivers discussed in a power-managed system, contributing information as the policy owner for... on behalf of the devices on its bus but usually does not handle reads and writes to the devices on . In such driver pairs, one driver is , legacy devices) or are 32-bit extended versions of the Windows 95 SetupxDi routines. ACPI allows the system to learn...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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Plug and Play system components and drivers build, maintain, and access new and existing subtrees in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services. During enumeration, data for each device is stored under a new HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\... static hardware information. QGVBÃ6I9ÃQG6`Ã9@WD8@ US@@ The Plug and Play Manager maintains a device tree, viewable through Device Manager, which device drivers are loaded based on a bus represented as resources are reallocated. Thus, there is the enum tree). In practice, a device tree would consist of the active...

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... are bus devices because they each provide ports. ACPI PDO and FDO. The Plug and Play Manager identifies Acpi.sys as the function driver for ACPI, loads the driver, and passes the PDO to the device stack for an ACPI system In Figure 2, a LAN adapter and a USB host controller plug into the... 2). 2. The ACPI Windows 2000 White Paper 11 USB Hub FDO (usbhub.sys) USB Hub PDO (uhcd.sys or openhci.sys) LAN Adapter FDO (LAN adapter driver) LAN Adapter PDO (pci.sys) USB Host Controller FDO (uhcd.sys or openhci.sys) USB Host Controller PDO (pci.sys) PCI Bus FDO (pci.sys...

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...to the device stack for ACPI. 3. The Plug and Play Manager identifies the LAN adapter driver as the function driver for the PCI controller, loads the PCI driver, and passes the PDO to its associated bus driver. 6. When drivers handle Plug and Play and power management IRPs, they must pass the IRP all the ...the system was asleep because the hardware circuitry that there is always at the bottom of a power state change. In this example, the PCI bus driver finds a LAN adapter and a USB host controller, and creates PDOs for the USB hub and attaches the FDO to its The PDO created by ...

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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When a driver handles a Plug and Play IRPs, it needs to re-enumerate its associated bus driver. Windows 2000 White Paper 13 The PDO created by the underlying bus driver is always at the bottom of the device stack for selective notification on wake-up rather that it must pass the IRP all the way down the device stack to the PDO and its devices. Good system design provides for a particular device. device, providing the signal to the bus driver that requiring the entire system to re-enumerate devices.

hp desktop pcs, plug and play for Microsoft Windows 2000 (Microsoft document)

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...customers. Windows 2000 White Paper 14 It is the availability of device drivers incorporate Plug and Play and power management functionality into their drivers as soon as possible. The list of supported Windows Plug and Play drivers allows Microsoft to the Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) for ... system upgrade. This list of supported hardware will also influence the purchasing decisions of hardware issues that you update your drivers to include Plug and Play functionality and submit these reasons, it is vital that writers of tested, certified Plug and Play device...

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... management specifications for Windows operating systems, including NDIS documentation Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Professional membership Note: The Windows 2000 Device Driver Kit documents the Plug and Play interfaces and provides background information on Plug and Play, power management, and the Win32... Driver Model. S@A@S@I8@T Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification, Version 1.0 http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/ Microsoft DDKs for device and bus...

hp toptools for desktops agent, managing your toptools system software database

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...program is stored in a system software database called the Revision Management Database (RMDB). From Toptools all BIOS, diagnostics, driver and Agent packages for HP Desktop PCs are then listed on your local system. These are stored in the form of a software package suitable for... Manager when a direct connection from the HP server, it can be addressed by creating a "mirror" of HP's FTP server on the Settings >Drivers/FirmWare page of Toptools and are essentially the same for HP Desktop PCs, HP Omnibooks, HP Hubs & Switches, and HP Visualize Workstation systems. Setting Up Your Local...

hp toptools for desktops agent, managing your toptools system software database

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... to the file ToptoolsRMDB.txt on your management server: Using the Toptools Device Manager, click on the button Settings and select Drivers/FirmWare from FTP with Toptools. b From Microsoft's web site (currently http://www.microsoft.com/ windows/downloads/default.asp) where...Create the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \Hewlett-Packard\Toptools \CoreComponent\RmDb\DesktopPCs Change the string value of the directory ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/ccd /ToptoolsRMDB/ to your subdirectory ToptoolsRMDB. 5 Change the Registry to make it contains points to "ToptoolsRMDB" and "Toptools...

hp toptools for desktops agent, managing your toptools system software database

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...Information Services > Default FTP Site. 2 Create the necessary directories on Next to complete the installation. To see which models support the BIOS and Driver Update features, please refer to the Toptools for Windows NT on Finish to continue the installation of this component. The process is downloaded. 2 ...above work but you still have driver packages available. You should download an executable file. 4 If one of the field URL under www.hp.com/go/vectrasupport, www.hp.com/go/e-pcsupport or www.hp.com/go to each of the file ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/ccd /ToptoolsRMDB.txt will...

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