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What is Unplugged Device?

Unplugged Device, also known as non-present devices, is a kind of device that was physically removed from the computer but whose registry entries were not deleted. Once connected with a new USB Flash Drive, Windows will save its related information. When a device has been disconnected with the system, the remained information refers to an unplugged device. Other unplugged devices include Scanner, Printer, Android Devices and iOS Devices etc.

How to Check Unplugged Devices?

1. When you show hidden devices, note the Bluetooth icon you see is semi-transparent (not opaque). That indicates a 'non-present' device. Sometimes also called a 'ghost' device. The driver is still installed but the device is not currently detected (i.e. Device can be disconnected when. Device unplugged (e.g. Removing a USB device.
2. Drivers › Input Devices (mouse, etc.) Input Devices (mouse, etc.) Bluetooth Remote Control. USB Human Interface Device.

There are two methods to check unplugged devices on Windows. Let’s take Windows 10 as an example.

Method One: Check Unplugged Devices in Device Manager

Although some devices won’t display by default in Device Manager, you can still check those hidden devices with one more step, including unplugged devices.

1. Right-click the Windows Start button and choose “Device Manager”;

2. Click “view” and choose “show hidden devices”;

Then you will find some hidden devices in the list, which includes the unplugged devices.

Method Two: Check Unplugged Devices with a Driver Updater

1. Run driver updater - Driver Booster 6 beta, it will automatically scan and check the driver status;

2. After scanning, there will be a list of all available updates, the driver with a “” mark belongs to unplugged device driver.

How to Update Necessary Unplugged Device Drivers

Updating necessary unplugged device driver can make it better adapt to the system and run smoother. You can also update the unplugged device driver in Device Manager or use Driver Booster.

Method One: Update Unplugged Device Drivers in Device Manager

1. Right-click the relevant device and choose “update driver”;

2. Click “Search automatically for updated driver software”;

It will start searching for driver update online. If there is a new driver available, you can manually update it for better use.

Method Two: Update Unplugged Device Drivers with Driver Booster 6 beta

Since manually updating a device driver can be time-wasting and you need to consider the compatibility, you can also use Driver Booster 6 beta to update the device drivers. It can easily scan and check the diver status and provide common driver update. With the enhanced database, Driver Booster 6 beta will match the best driver for unplugged devices. When plugged again, these devices will run better on computer.

1. Run Driver Booster 6 beta and wait for the scanning result;

2. Click “Update Now” to upgrade all outdated drivers.

How to Clean Useless Unplugged Device Data

Besides updating, Driver Booster 6 beta can also help clean the unplugged device data. If some unplugged devices won’t be used again, you can choose to clean the related data.

Since there are no systematic ways to clean unplugged device data, you may need to check the saving paths and clean up them manually. This is flexible for most users. Besides, if you delete some important files, it may cause a problem. In this case, Driver Booster 6 beta can be the choice.

1. Run Driver Booster and choose “Clean Unplugged Device Data”;

2. Click “Start”, it will automatically scan and clean the unplugged device data.

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This article clarifies some confusion that vendors have experienced about how hardware that complies with PCI Power Management (PCI-PM) interacts with device drivers in the operating system and about how PCI-PM integrates with ACPI. For more information, see https://www.uefi.org/specifications

Device drivers and PCI power management

This discussion assumes that you are familiar with how Windows Driver Model (WDM) drivers handle power management events, as described in the current Windows DDK. In general, the responsibilities for device drivers are as follows:

• Bus drivers: Bus drivers are responsible for enumerating, configuring, and controlling devices. For PCI-PM, the PCI driver is responsible for reading the PCI-PM registers to determine the capabilities of the hardware. When POWER IRPs request power state changes, the PCI driver writes to the PCI power management registers to set the hardware to different Dx states.

  When a device is enabled for wake-up, the PCI driver writes to PCI-PM registers to enable the device to fire PME (ACPI will also take an action, see the next section). Finally, when ACPI determines that the PCI bus is waking the system, the PCI driver scans PCI configuration space looking for which device is asserting PME, disables PME in that device, and notifies the driver for that device.

• Device driver: The specific driver for the device is responsible for saving and restoring device context, and requesting power state changes as the policy owner for the device. When the device driver receives a POWER IRP requesting a lower device power state change, the device driver is responsible for saving any proprietary device context needed to later turn on the device. In some cases, there may be nothing to save.

PCI-PM registers are strictly the domain of the PCI driver--the IHV's device driver does not need to access any of these registers. Doing so would cause the system to not work reliably. The device driver's responsibility is to perform only proprietary actions.

Integrating ACPI and PCI PM

Some devices, particularly motherboard video devices in portables, may require both PCI Power Management as well as ACPI Source Language Assembler (ASL) to completely power manage the device. The PCI Power Management registers would control the internal state of a device, such as internal clocks and power planes. ASL would control the external state, such as external clocks and power planes, or in the case of video controllers, ASL would control the video backlights. Note that ASL and PCI-PM can only be combined on motherboard devices.

The OnNow architecture is a layered architecture, handling the integration of the device driver, PCI driver, and ACPI driver (and ASL) naturally. The following scenarios show the order in which drivers are called to handle these devices.

Note

For the above scenarios to work as described, a WDM driver must forward POWER IRPs correctly as described in the current version of the Microsoft Windows DDK.

Scenario 1: Turning off a device

1. Device driver: Saves proprietary device state.
2. PCI driver: Saves Plug and Play configuration, disables the device (interrupts and BARs), and puts the device in D3 using PCI-PM registers.
3. ACPI driver: Runs ASL code (_PS3 and _OFF for power resources no longer in use) to control the state external to the chip.

Scenario 2: PCI power management and device drivers

1. ACPI driver: Runs ASL code (_PS0 and _ON for any OnNow required power resources) to control the state external to the chip.
2. PCI driver: Puts the device in D0 using PCI-PM registers and restores Plug and Play configuration (interrupts and BARs--these might be different from what the device was previously on).
3. Device driver: Restores proprietary context in the device.

Scenario 3: Enabling wake-up

1. Device driver: Sets proprietary registers in the chip to enable wake-up. For example, in pattern matching network wake-up, this is when the patterns would be programmed into the adapter.
2. PCI driver: Sets the wake-up enable bits in the PCI PM registers to allow the device to assert PME.
3. ACPI driver: Enables the GPE in the chip set associated with PME (as described by the _PRW object listed under the root PCI bus).

Scenario 4: Wake-up

1. ACPI driver: Wakes and scans the GPE status bits for wake-up events, disabling GPEs for set GPE status bits, and running any _Lxx or _Exx methods associated with set GPE bits. In response to a wake-up notification on the PCI bus, the ACPI driver will complete the PCI driver's WAIT_WAKE IRP to notify the PCI driver that it is waking the system.
2. PCI driver: Scans configuration space looking for any devices with a set PME status bit. For each device, it disables PME and completes the WAIT_WAKE IRP for that device to inform the driver that it is asserting wake-up. The PCI driver stops scanning for wake devices when it has made a complete pass through all PCI devices having not found any asserting PME and when PME stops being asserted.
3. Device driver: Requests the device be put in D0 (see scenario 2) and sets any proprietary registers in the chip required to handle the wake-up event.

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Call to action on PCI power management and device drivers

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• Integrate ACPI and PCI-PM capabilities into your devices as described in this article.
• The PCI Power Management specification is available at https://www.pcisig.com. This link leaves the Microsoft.com site.
• ACPI Specification available at https://www.uefi.org/specifications. This link leaves the Microsoft.com site.
• The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) compiler can be found at https://acpica.org/downloads/binary-tools.