| All comments about giveio.sys: |
 rob | you better delete this |
 Gerrit Plasman | It seems an Intel driver (I'm no expert) according to what I found on Google See also: Link |
| | device driver for NT 4.0/2000/XP The giveIO tool enables low-level access to I/O ports for programs under Windows 2000 and XP. This is needed for some software that communicates through LPT ports. (Some people say that UserPort is better for Windows XP |
| Darek Ali | Input/Output for gamepads See also: Link |
| pete | 2000/xp dll to directly acces serial /lpt ports |
| Jonathan Wright | No idea what it is, but it hangs the windows boot process, even in safe mode, and even after deleting it. So far the only solution is a reformat. |
| Krystal Rose | it is for running a system monitor program See also: Link |
 fu3lman | used for system monitors, like temperature probes for cpus |
| Seajay | Installed as part of SpeedFan Freeware (and probably other software) See also: Link |
| Andy | This file is for allowing programs low-level access to parallel and serial ports. |
| BST | It is a widely-used driver to allow user-mode programs to access hardware registers and I/O ports, such as for controlling fan speed or monitoring temperatures. It is generally safe, although since it uses undocumented kernel calls it may cause instability on future versions of Windows. If that's the case, or you don't use any programs which need direct hardware access, you may freely remove this driver (from the Non-Plug-and-Play Devices branch of Device Manager--don't just delete the file). Otherwise it poses no threat. See also: Link |
 Stephen | It is a pesky rat installed by SpeedFan. Foolw the link to get rid of it ("disable") rather than "automatic" See also: Link |
| mike | used by temp control programs like speedfan and mbm5 |
| jim the tech | it makes paralle port accesable in windows |
| Steve Strobel | The original files and documentation for Giveio can be found at (http://www.ddj.com/ftp/1996/1996.05/directio.zip). |
| | Used by SpeedFan |
| ewigreinsteliebe | Der Treiber wurde von Dale Roberts entwickelt. Es ermöglicht unter Windows NT/2000/XP direkte Speicherzugriffe, die eigentlich nur unter Windows 95/98 möglich sind. See also: Link |
| Osscar Grouch | On my computer it was installed by a freeware program called Speed Fan. Monitors Motherboard, Processor and Fans for voltages, temperatures and fanspeed See also: Link |
| aaron | in my case most likely installed with application SensorsView beta 1.0, fan speed and temperature monitoring software; translate link with google, info under 1/26/06 See also: Link |
| | I'm sure its used by SpeedFan |
| DavidR | Essential component of speedfan! |
| sylwek | Used for direct access to the LPT Parallel Port for example for Holger's Parallel Port AVR Mega Prommer |
| Alex Wojtak | windows XP and certain other OSs restrict access to the serial, parallel, and other ports. Many programs therefore have to use this sys file to access those ports, rather than having their own device drivers, with dlls, to access external hardware. |
| Pudge | Allows access to Printer Port For comunication! |
| zimbabwa | Installs with speedfan utility to monitor temperatures, adjust speed of conected fans, etc. |
| Chris www.getcarspares.com | Installed by speedfan, used by other hardware monitoring programs |
| Anon | Harmless, NOT cause of any crashing or such - Used for reading temp-propes etc. (by SpeedFan among other such softwares) See also: Link |
| | This is driver that gives access to low level registers. It could be used by any program. It's not provided by Windows |
| Radio Connie | We use it at our radio station to start a logging program with a contact closure via the parallel port. See also: Link |
| Charles D. Bohne | Speed Fan (V 4.32) seems to run pretty well without it; Windows XP doesn't like it, says it is "destructive" ;- |
 Chris P. | I had the Speedfan problem too. It was working fine for months, until an automatic Windows XP update caused it to conflict. The solution was to uninstall Speedfan entirely, through Add/remove Programs. Rebooting afterwards worked fine. |
| Richard Ballard | I had this problem, and after much looking around for answers, discovered XP desided it didn't like one of the USB devices I had hooked up. I ran into the problem after upgradeing Quicktime to the latest version. |
| Alda | It is for direct access to paralell port.It is OK |
| Richard Ballard | Mine was added by a Quicktime update and totaly crashed my system. Removal looks easy enough, but as the system locks even in safe mode, can be a real pain to correct sometimes. |
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