Tuesday, October 23, 2012

How to Identify a Base System Device?

As you might already know, the phrase Base System Device is a generic term being used by Windows OS to label problematic devices. This post will consider the manual and easier way to identify a Base System Device and other problematic devices on your computer.

In most occasions, a Base System Device is being identified as a component of the built-in card reader of a PC laptop. However, there are cases where a Base System Device turns out to be a chipset component, FN-Functionality component, Parser Service component, accelerator component, and Volume Control related component.

As mentioned earlier, this post will consider two options, namely:

With these device possibilities of Base System Device identity, there are chances that you might install an incorrect driver files on your computer that can trigger additional hardware device issues and even serious system errors. Thus, it is very important to identify your Base System Device or any problematic devices first before installing the device drivers intended to solve such device driver related issues.

One of the basic ways to identify a problematic device is through the aid of the Hardware Device Ids, and it's the same case for a Base System Device.

All you need to do is to a. access the Device Manager:
For Windows Vista/7: click the Windows button, type Device Manager, and then click the Device Manager from the search results.

For Windows XP: Click the Start button, click Run, type 'devmgmt.msc' without the quotations, and then click OK.

After opening the Device Manager, you can now then b. check the hardware device IDs of your Base System Device:

Right-click the Base System Device, click Properties, click the Details tab, and then look for the Device Instance Path (for Windows Vista/7) or Device Instance ID (for Windows XP).

After getting the Hardware Device IDs of your Base System Device, you can now look for the identity of your Base System Device. One way is to just use some part of the Hardware Device IDs as search keywords (VEN_1180&DEV_0852), but you can also visit some helpful websites to undergo Vendor or Device searches.

One of the useful places that you can visit is PCIdatabase.com, and you only need to use the Vendor ID and counter check the search results with the Device ID afterwards. Navigate here to read more information about this free online tool that you can use identify your Base System Device Drivers.

Considering the time, focus, and energy required to identify a Base System Device manually, can you imagine the trouble that you will experience if there are other problematic devices on your computer that you need to identify? Well, to aid you with this predicament, you can consider the Instant Option below.

The instant option to identify a Base System Device requires you to install a trusted and reliable Driver Update Software, and one of these applications is Driver Detective. You will only need to run a Device Driver Scan, and then a list of hardware devices with missing and even with out-of-date drivers will be provided for you after the scan. You can visit http://www.otherdevices.org/base-system-device-driver/ to learn more about this option.

The instant option will not only aid you in identifying your Base System Device, but it will be a great help in identifying all the problematic devices on your computer. These devices include those with missing, corrupted, faulty, and outdated device drivers.

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