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In Reply to: 4. [New] Disable System Devices posted by cics on April 18, 2007 at 10:26:42
Control Panel > System > Hardware TAB > Device Manager BUTTON > View MENU > Check ‘Show hidden devices’
With ‘Show hidden devices’ checked, much can be disabled. I’ve summarized by reply post all devices to be disabled including those noted previously.
Follow Ups:
Select View > ‘Devices by connection’ in Device Manager. Goto ACPI > Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System > PCI Bus. Compare with above after disabling devices.
PCI-PCI Bridge controllers are disabled as I don’t use any PCI Express interfaces. If using PCI-E graphics card, one of these must remain enabled.
On some mobos, you can also disable ‘PCI-ISA bridge’ and / or ‘ISAPNP’. On right-click, menu gives ‘Disable’ option. In my case, right-click menu only offers ‘Uninstall’. In this case device can be uninstalled which immediately reinstalls on reboot.
This applies to no Network stuff being used. Items ‘ViaIde & Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller’ should NOT be disabled if using standard IDE or SATA interface. ‘ViaIde’ is specific to VIA mobo chipset. I’m able to safely disable these as I use SATA RAID 0.
Only do this if you don’t use any Networking functions.
This will require a reset of your video to 16 bit color, no video acceleration and uncheck ‘enable write combining’. Also make sure output resolution is set to native / default display resolution. Most new displays are either 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024.
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