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Bus Type
How to I determine the bus type of the user's computer in Visual Basic 5.0? ie, is it ISA, EISA, VESA, PCI, etc?
This might be silly. Just provide for some reference. :)
Enumerate all keys under HKLM\System\CurrentControl Set\Servic es\Class\S ystem
Check value "InfSection" and "DevLoader" under all these keys. If InfSection = "ISA_DRV" and DevLoader = "isapnp.vxd", the machine has ISA bus. If InfSection = "PCI_DRV" and DevLoader = "pci.vxd", the machine has PCI bus. I am not sure about EISA and VESA.
The DevLoader might be changed and I am also not sure whether it is reliable to check only value "InfSection".
Hope this help.
Enumerate all keys under HKLM\System\CurrentControl
Check value "InfSection" and "DevLoader" under all these keys. If InfSection = "ISA_DRV" and DevLoader = "isapnp.vxd", the machine has ISA bus. If InfSection = "PCI_DRV" and DevLoader = "pci.vxd", the machine has PCI bus. I am not sure about EISA and VESA.
The DevLoader might be changed and I am also not sure whether it is reliable to check only value "InfSection".
Hope this help.
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(No sarcasm intended, I'm really curious.)