Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 13. Managing and Troubleshooting Hardware

• Working with Device Drivers

• Setting Up New Hardware Devices

• Obtaining Hardware Device Information

• Managing Installed Drivers

• Managing Devices through Hardware Profiles

• Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and Drivers

Unless you've standardized on a particular hardware platform, most servers that you'll work with will have different hardware components. This means different servers will probably have different motherboards, disk controllers, graphics cards, and network adapters. Fortunately, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is designed to work with an extensive list of hardware devices. When you install new hardware, Windows tries to detect the device automatically and then install the correct driver software ...