Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Finding the drivers for unknown devices

Most of have face the problem of seeing unknown device in the device manager.
Here is the solution...for finding the driver
The steps are

1. find the vendor id and the device id

1.1 Go to the device manager.Left click on the device and select the properties option.
1.2 In properties window click the details tab..and u will see a message like this

HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06&SUBSYS_104D1700&REV_1000

Here 14F1 is the Vendor ID(the code that comes after ven)

and 2C06 is the Device ID (the code that comes after dev)

2. After getting the device and the vendor id you can go to pcidatabase.com and search with your vendor and device id for the driver of the unknown device.

3 After identifying the device you can go to the company web site and download the driver..

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