Monday, July 18, 2011

How to find drivers for Unknown Devices

Each device in the computer has a Vendor ID and Device ID. You just know this ID to find the right driver. Now let's see how you can find the Vendor ID and Device ID.
Step 1:
Open Device Manager
Step 2:
trus plasticity unknown device icon here which was a question mark '? "yellow, an example is the sound card is detected as unknown device.
Step 3:
Right click on unknown device and click Properties. we will see the properties of the device.
Step 4:
Under the Properties window, see the Details tab and select Device Instance ID under the drop down box.
Step 5:
When you select Device Instance ID, we see something like this
PCI \ VEN_8086 & DEV_266E & SUBSYS_3006103C & REV_03 \ 3 & B1BFB68 & 0 & F2
Vendor ID can be seen after Ven and Device ID code located next to the code DEV. For example, in the example above, the Vendor ID and Device ID it is ...
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 266E
Step 6:
After knowing the Vendor ID and Device ID, visit http://www.pcidatabase.com/. Inside the site we can search a database of information devices based on the Vendor and Device ID.
After learning in detail the Vendor and Device-related information not previously known (unknown device), can now search for a suitable driver through the device manufacturers' Web sites or through search engines such as www.Google.com, or even the local ones have like www.driverlib. com.

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