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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (71783)8/22/2010 12:52:40 AM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (1) of 110655
 
I was poking around in control panel (or device manager)
and apparently Windows 7 has a way to entirely deactivate
or exclude unknown devices. Maybe it was in one of the
troubleshooters that are buried here and there.

Anyway, for anybody interested in this sort of thing...

I did use this...

unknown device identifier software download
download.cnet.com

And it identified this as being

[UNKNOWN DEVICE]
Chip: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family HECI Controller
Detail PnpID
VEN_8086&DEV_3B64&SUBSYS_04381028&REV_06

Which isn't much more than I knew before, but at least
it is pretty certain to do with Intel AMT
en.wikipedia.org

Anyway, there were no drivers installed (I had probably
uninstalled them when I uninstalled the Intel AMT program.
I went ahead and confirmed that Windows more completely
exclude or bypass it. No ill effects that I can see so far.

Finally, it has been 60 hours since my last video device
crash and I'm feeling more confident that it did have
something to do with screwed up sleep settings and/or Intel AMT.

It is possible that buying a PC from the Dell outlet got
me a machine that was intended for an office setting where
Intel AMT could be very useful. But I think I've done the
right thing for me in getting rid of it. Time will tell.
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