IT1910

Laboratory Exercise
Device Manager
Objectives:

At the end of the exercise, the students should be able to:

 Identify the different devices a computer system has;

 Identify each hardware manufacturer and its location; and
 Identify the functions of Device Manager.

Material:

 Computer with pre-installed Windows 10 and full administrator access

Basic Principles:

The Device Manager is an extension of the Microsoft Management Console. It provides a central and organized view of
all the Microsoft Windows’ recognized hardware installed in a computer. As the name implies, it is used for managing
hardware devices installed in a computer such as hard disk drives, keyboards, sound cards, USB devices, etc. It can also
be used for changing hardware configuration options, managing drivers, disabling and enabling hardware, identifying
conflicts between hardware devices, and much more.

Procedures:

1. In order to navigate to Device Manager, Click Start > Settings. Enter “device manager” in the text field.
Then, click Device Manager.
2. List at least 15 devices including their information in the following table.

Device Name Manufacturer Location Device Status

1. Bluetooth Radios GenericAdapter Location 0 This device is working properly.
(Port_#0007.Hub_#0001)

2. Computer (Standard computers) Unknown This device is working properly.

3. Disk Drives (Standard disk drives) Location 0 (Channel 0, Target This device is working properly.
0, Lun 0)

4. Display Adapters Intel Corporation PCI bus 0, device 2, function 0 This device is working properly.

5. Human Interface Microsoft Location 0 This device is working properly.

Devices

6. IDR ATA/ATAPI (Standard IDE Channel 0 This device is working properly.

Controllers ATA/ATAPI
controllers)
7. Keyboards (Standard keyboards) Location 0 This device is working properly.

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Device Name Manufacturer Location Device Status

8. Mice and Other Microsoft Location 0 This device is working properly.
Pointing Devices

9. Monitors (Standard monitor types) on Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 This device is working properly.

10. Network Adapters Microsoft Location 0 This device is working properly.

11. Other Devices Unknown on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant The drivers for this device are not
System installed. (Code 28)

There is no driver selected for the

device information set or element.

To find a driver for this device, click

Update Driver.
12. Processors Intel on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant This device is working properly.
System

13. Sound, Video and Intel(R) Corporation Location 0 (Internal High This device is working properly.
Game Controllers Definition Audio Bus)

14. System Devices (Standard system on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant This device is working properly.
devices) System

15. Universal Serial Bus (Generic USB Hub) Port_#0001.Hub_#0001 This device is working properly.
Controllers

3. Notify the lab facilitator once you are done.

Conclusion:

Guide questions:
1. In your own opinion, what is the purpose of Device Manager? - The goal of managing devices is to gather computer input
and output while also figuring out what the user wants the system manager to perform.

2. How does the Device Manager helps in troubleshooting faulty hardware? - Supports in discovering the system issue that we
are trying to fix.

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GRADING RUBRIC:
Criteria/Scoring Indicator Score
Content Provided supporting details and factual scenarios. 5
Organization of Ideas Expressed clear points and arranged ideas. 5
Total 10

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