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    PCI-Z, system utility designed to provide information about (unknown) PCI devices

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by bbanelli, Jan 4, 2014.

  1. bbanelli

    bbanelli Newbie

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    Greetings,

    I would like to wish all of you successful new 2014 to begin with. I have created PCI-Z, a freeware lightweight system utility designed to provide information about (unknown) PCI (PCI-E, PCI-X...) devices.

    PCI-Z detect unknown PCI devices

    PCI-Z is designed for detecting unknown hardware on your Windows based PC. It will help you determine vendor, device and certain details about device even if you don't have drivers installed. Software uses The PCI ID Repository, a public repository of all known ID's used in PCI devices: ID's of vendors, devices, subsystems and device classes. It is used in various programs (e.g. The PCI Utilities) to display full human-readable names instead of cryptic numeric codes.

    Software is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012. Both 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x64) Windows are fully supported. Software will NOT run on Windows 95, 98 or ME.

    It does not require any library but default Windows ones. No Visual Studio C++ redistributed, no .NET platform, no Java. It doesn't even require WMI, so you can use it on Windows editions such as Bart PE and similar.

    There is no installation or configuration! Simply run the file and wait until you get the report. Afterwards, right click on the line to get options (copy all data or just a segment) or export the whole list.

    No configuration of whatsoever is needed.

    I hope you will find this free tool useful for detecting unknown hardware and locating proper drivers for it!

    (for moderators: I apologize in advance if I should have put this thread somewhere else!)
     
    bbanelli, Jan 4, 2014
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  2. 3Fees

    3Fees Notebook Deity

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    Thanks for sharing

    Cheers
    3Fees :)
     
    3Fees, Jan 4, 2014
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