Drivers make device independence possible for Windows NT applications, providing the hardware-specific interface between physical devices and Windows NT. The Setup program can install several kinds of drivers for Windows NT, including the following:
Note Multimedia and printer drivers are optional.
Windows NT includes the following driver files.
Table 4.3 Driver (.DRV and .SYS) Files
Filename | Description | |||
4MMDAT.SYS | 4 mm DAT drive support; Archive® 4x20, WangDAT, HP® 35470a, HP 35480a, COMPAQ® | |||
4MMSONY.SYS | Archive 4x20 Sony driver | |||
8514A.SYS | Miniport driver | |||
ABIOSDSK.SYS | MCA non-SCSI (WD1003 compatible controller); x86 only | |||
AFD.SYS | Ancillary Function Driver that provides kernel-mode support for Windows Sockets transport interface by extending the functionality of TDI | |||
AHA154X.SYS | Adaptec 154x SCSI driver | |||
AHA174X.SYS | Adaptec 174x SCSI driver | |||
AIC78XX.SYS | CSI miniport driver | |||
ALWAYS.SYS | Always SCSI miniport | |||
AM1500T.SYS | AMD AM2100, AM1500T, and PCnet driver support | |||
AMI0NT.SYS | AMI series 44/48 SCSI controller driver | |||
ANSI.SYS | MS-DOS utility | |||
ARCHQIC.SYS | Tape driver support for Archive 2150s, 2525s, 2750 | |||
ARROW.SYS | SCSI miniport disk driver for Adaptec 2740/AIC 777x | |||
ASYNCMAC.SYS | Remote Access Server Serial network driver | |||
ATAPI.SYS | CD-ROM driver with non-SCSI interface | |||
ATDISK.SYS | ISA/EISA non-SCSI (WD1003 compatible controller) | |||
ATI.SYS | ATI video display driver (640 x 480 x 16 colors up to 1280 x 1024 x 16,777,216 colors) | |||
BEEP.SYS | Speaker port driver (ISA, MCA, EISA) | |||
BHNT.SYS | Network Monitor driver for capturing packets | |||
BRHJ770.DLL | Network browser kernel component; redirector | |||
BUSLOGIC.SYS | BusLogic family SCSI miniport | |||
BUSMOUSE.SYS | Microsoft or Logitech bus mouse driver | |||
CDAUDIO.SYS | CD Audio support, only for specific non-SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives | |||
CDFS.SYS | CD-ROM file system driver | |||
CDFS_REC.SYS | CD-ROM file system recognizer | |||
CIRRUS.SYS | Cirrus Logic display driver (640 x 480 x 16 colors to 1024 x 768 x 256 colors) | |||
COMM.DRV | Win16 communications driver | |||
COUNTRY.SYS | MS-DOS utility; supports international time, dates, currency, case conversions, and decimal separators | |||
CPQARRAY.SYS | COMPAQ disk array driver | |||
DAC960NT.SYS | Mylex DAC960 SCSI driver | |||
DELL_DGX.SYS | Dell® DGX video display driver (640 x 480 x 256 colors to 1280 x 1024 x 256 colors; note: 1152 x 900 x 65536 color mode) | |||
DELLDSA.SYS | Driver for Dell intelligent disk array controller (available on high-end server systems from Dell) | |||
DIGIFEP5.SYS | Digiboard® FEP 5 adapter driver | |||
DISKDUMP.SYS | Crash dump disk driver | |||
DISKPERF.SYS | Disk performance statistics gatherer, collects simple statistics on the system disk performance; used in conjunction with the Performance Monitor | |||
DLC.SYS | Data Link Control driver | |||
DLTTAPE.SYS | Digital Equipment TZ86 and DLT2000 SCSI tape driver | |||
DPTSCSI.SYS | EISA DPT controller | |||
DTC329X.SYS | DTC329x SCSI miniport driver | |||
EE16.SYS | Network NDIS driver: Intel EtherExpress® card | |||
ELNK16.SYS | Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-16 card | |||
ELNK3.SYS | Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-III card | |||
ELNKII.SYS | Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-II card | |||
ELNKMC.SYS | Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-MC card, 3Com® EtherLink® MCA driver | |||
ET4000.SYS | Video driver for Tseng Labs ET-4000 video chipset | |||
EXABYTE1.SYS | Tape driver for Exabyte 8200 series (SCSI-1) | |||
EXABYTE2.SYS | Tape driver for Exabyte 8500 series (SCSI-2) | |||
FASTFAT.SYS | File Allocation Table (FAT) file system driver | |||
FAT_REC.SYS | FAT file system recognizer | |||
FD16_700.SYS | SCSI miniport driver for Future Domain® 16xx series cards | |||
FD7000EX.SYS | SCSI disk driver for Future Domain/Western Digital 7000EX controller (EISA) | |||
FD8XX.SYS | SCSI disk driver for Future Domain 8xx controller | |||
FLOPPY.SYS | Floppy disk driver (non-SCSI) | |||
FS_REC.SYS | File system recognizer | |||
FTDISK.SYS | Fault Tolerant volume management driver | |||
HIMEM.SYS | XMS driver for VDMs | |||
HPFS_REC.SYS | High-performance file system recognizer driver | |||
HPSCAN16.SYS | Scanner | |||
I8042PRT.SYS | Keyboard and i8042 mouse port driver | |||
IBMTOK.SYS | Network NDIS driver for IBM® Token Ring adapter and IBM Token Ring adapter/A | |||
IBMTOK2I.SYS | IBM Token Ring 16/4 Adapter II ISA network driver | |||
INPORT.SYS | Microsoft InPort mouse port driver | |||
KBDCLASS.SYS | Keyboard class driver | |||
KEYBOARD.DRV | Win16 keyboard driver | |||
KEYBOARD.SYS | Command-line keyboard driver | |||
LANCE.SYS | Network NDIS driver: DEC® Lance adapter driver | |||
LANMAN.DRV | Win16 LAN Manager network driver | |||
LOOP.SYS | Microsoft loop-back network NDIS driver | |||
LT200.SYS | Software for Macintosh, Apple® LocalTalk® driver | |||
MCIAVI.DRV | MCI driver for AVI | |||
MCISEQ.DRV | MCI driver for MIDI sequencer | |||
MCIWAVE.DRV | MCI driver for waveform audio | |||
MINIQIC.SYS | Exabyte 2501 miniqic driver | |||
MIPSSND.SYS | MIPS ARCSystem 100/150 sound | |||
MITSUMI.SYS | Mitsumi non-SCSI CD-ROM driver | |||
MKECR5XX.SYS | MKE CR-56X/CR-52X miniport driver | |||
MOUCLASS.SYS | Mouse Class driver | |||
MOUSE.DRV | Win16 mouse stub driver | |||
MSACM32.DRV | Microsoft Audio Compression Manager driver | |||
MSFS.SYS | Mailslot file system driver | |||
MUP.SYS | Network Multiple UNC Provider (required) | |||
MVAUDIO.SYS | Media Vision ProAudio Spectrum 16 driver | |||
MVOPL3.SYS | Media Vision OPL3 FM Synthesizer driver | |||
NBF.SYS | NetBEUI Frame (NBF) driver | |||
NBT.SYS | NetBIOS for TCP/IP driver, used for Windows Networking (RFC1001/1002) | |||
NCR53C9X.SYS | NCR® SCSI disk driver for MIPS-based computers | |||
NCR77C22.SYS | Video driver for NCR 77C22 SVGA adapters | |||
NCRC700.SYS | SCSI disk driver for NCR 53c700 controller | |||
NCRC710.SYS | SCSI disk driver for NCR 53c710 controller | |||
NCRC810.SYS | NCR 53C810 SCSI driver | |||
NDIS.SYS | NDIS wrapper driver; required for NDIS drivers | |||
NDISTAPI.SYS | NDIS 3.0 connection wrapper driver | |||
NDISWAN.SYS | Remote Access network driver | |||
NE1000.SYS, NE2000.SYS, NE3200.SYS | Network NDIS drivers for Novell® NE1000, NE2000, and NE3200 adapters | |||
NETBIOS.SYS | NetBIOS API driver; Microsoft NetBIOS Transport Interface | |||
NETBT.SYS | Netbt driver | |||
NETDTECT.SYS | Network card detection driver | |||
NETFLX.SYS | Network NDIS driver for COMPAQ NetFlex/DualSpeed Token Ring adapter card | |||
NETWARE.DRV | Netware driver | |||
NPEISA.SYS | Network peripherals FDDI, EISA NDIS driver | |||
NPFS.SYS | Named pipes file system driver | |||
NPMCA.SYS | Network peripherals FDDI, MCA NDIS driver | |||
NTCX.SYS | Network NDIS driver for Digiboard C/X adapter | |||
NTDOS.SYS | Command-line emulation drive | |||
NTEPC.SYS | Digi International EPC communications miniport driver | |||
NTFS.SYS | Windows NT file system driver | |||
NTFS_REC.SYS | Windows NT file system recognizer driver | |||
NTIO.SYS | MS-DOS emulation BIOS driver | |||
NTXALL.SYS | Network NDIS driver for Digiboard PC/Xi, PC/2e, PC/4e, PC/8e | |||
NTXEM.SYS | Network NDIS driver for Digiboard PC/Xem | |||
NULL.SYS | NULL device driver | |||
NWLINK.SYS | NWLink library | |||
NWLNKIPX.SYS | NWLINK2 IPX protocol driver | |||
NWLNKNB.SYS | NWLINK2 IPX NetBIOS protocol driver | |||
NWLNKRIP.SYS | NWLINK2 RIP protocol driver | |||
NWLNKSPX.SYS | NWLINK2 SPX protocol driver | |||
NWNBLINK.SYS | NetWare® NetBIOS Link (NWNBLink) network transport driver | |||
NWRDR.SYS | NetWare redirector file system driver | |||
OLISCSI.SYS | SCSI disk driver for Olivetti® ESC-1/ESC-2 | |||
PARALLEL.SYS | Parallel port driver | |||
PARPORT.SYS | Parallel port driver | |||
PCIMAC.SYS | Network NDIS driver for Digiboard ISDN adapter | |||
PINBALL.SYS | HPFS driver | |||
PRONET16.SYS | Proteon ProNET4/16 Token Ring network driver | |||
QIC117.SYS | Floppy tape driver for QIC 117 floppy/tape drive | |||
QV.SYS | Video miniport driver for COMPAQ Qvision | |||
RASARP.SYS | Remote Access IP ARP driver | |||
RASHUB.SYS | RAS Hub driver | |||
RDR.SYS | Network redirector driver | |||
S3.SYS | Video driver library for S3 video chipsets (640 x 480 x 256 colors up to 1280 x 1024 x 256 colors) | |||
SCSICDRM.SYS | SCSI CD-ROM class driver | |||
SCSIDISK.SYS | SCSI disk class driver | |||
SCSIFLOP.SYS | SCSI class floppy driver; not required for startup | |||
SCSIPORT.SYS | SCSI port driver | |||
SCSIPRNT.SYS | SCSI print class driver | |||
SCSISCAN.SYS | SCSI scanner class driver | |||
SERIAL.SYS | Serial port driver | |||
SERMOUSE.SYS | Serial mouse driver | |||
SETUPDD.SYS | Windows NT Setup (kernel mode portion of character-based phase) | |||
SFMATALK.SYS | Services for Macintosh AppleTalk protocol driver | |||
SFMSRV.SYS | Services for Macintosh file server driver | |||
SLCD32.SYS | SLCD CD-ROM controller driver | |||
SMBTRSUP.SYS | SMB trace support; required for RDR.SYS and SRV.SYS | |||
SMC8000N.SYS | Network NDIS driver for SMC (Western Digital) network adapter cards | |||
SNDBLST.SYS | Audio driver for Creative Labs Sound Blaster, also the Media Vision Thunder Board | |||
SNDSYS.SYS | Multimedia kernel driver | |||
SONIC.SYS | Network NDIS driver for MIPS (built-in on Jazz computers) | |||
SOUND.DRV | Win16 Sound driver | |||
SPARROW.SYS | Adaptec 151x and 152x SCSI miniport driver | |||
SPOCK.SYS | SCSI MCA SCSI driver | |||
SRV.SYS | Network Server driver | |||
STREAMS.SYS | Streams driver; used by Streams-based protocols including TCP/IP and NWLink | |||
SYNTH.SYS | Synthesizer driver | |||
SYSTEM.DRV | Win16 system driver | |||
T128.SYS | Trantor 128 SCSI miniport driver | |||
T13B.SYS | Trantor 130b SCSI miniport driver | |||
TANDQIC.SYS | Tape driver for Tandberg 3660, 3820, 4120, and 4220 | |||
TCARC.SYS | ARCNET network driver | |||
TCPIP.SYS | TCP/IP driver; includes TCP/IP modules such as IP, UDP, TCP, and ARP | |||
TDI.SYS | Network TDI wrapper (required) | |||
TELNET.SYS | Telnet driver | |||
TIMER.DRV | Timer driver for PC compatibles | |||
TMV1.SYS | SCSI miniport driver for Trantor MediaVision | |||
TRIDENT.SYS | Video driver for Trident display adapters (640 x 480 x 16 colors to 1024 x 768 x 256 colors) | |||
UBNEI.SYS | Ungermann-Bass® network adapter driver | |||
ULTRA124.SYS | SCSI disk driver for UltraStor 124f controller | |||
ULTRA14F.SYS | SCSI disk driver for UltraStor 14f, 34f controller | |||
ULTRA24F.SYS | SCSI disk driver for UltraStor 24f controller | |||
V7VRAM.SYS | Video Seven VRAM driver | |||
VGA.DRV | Windows-16 VGA stub driver | |||
VGA.SYS | VGA class driver | |||
VGA_ALT.SYS | VGA alternate video driver | |||
VIDEOPRT.SYS | VGA video port driver | |||
VIDEOSIM.SYS | Frame buffer simulator | |||
WANGQIC.SYS | Tape driver for Wangtek 525, 250 tape drives | |||
WD33C93.SYS | SCSI disk driver for Maynard/Western Digital 33c93 controller (ISA) | |||
WDVGA.SYS | Video driver for Western Digital/Paradise display adapters (604 x 480 x 16 colors to 1024 x 768 x 256 colors) | |||
WFWNET.DRV | Windows for Workgroups 16-bit network stub driver | |||
WINSPOOL.DRV | Win32 print spooler interface that contains the print spooler API calls | |||
XGA.SYS | XGA video driver |