Interesting Hardware Device

June 4th, 2008 by Keith Leave a reply »

So I’m loading up an IBM rack server today with Windows Server 2003 x64.  After installing Service Pack 2 and rebooting, I’m greeted with a few hardware installation wizards.  One of them was quite interesting, have a look below.

ibm_dummy_device

What in the world is an “IBM Dummy Device”?  I tried a quick Google search and nothing useful turned up.  The system seems to work fine, but it just looked kind of funny so I figured I would share the laugh.

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1 comment

  1. Jon Wise says:

    Its probably a place holder device, for an unused slot, like a redundant power supply, drive bay or CPU socket…

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