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I reinstalled windows on a new machine and the drivers are not present for the product network card.
Find Drivers Through Hardware Id Lookup Hardware ID and driver setup. Hi, I am looking to create a tool which will create a bootable Windows PE CD/DVD/UFD using AIK or ADK which will have the ability to perform the following tasks: - Backup the Product Key used to install Windows- Backup the files used to activate Windows- Backup all necessary device drivers- Integrate everything into a Windows. In this site section you can search for device drivers by their Device Name or by its Hardware ID. To find the necessary driver you can use site search. If you do not know how to identify the Hardware ID of the device to search for a driver, you can view a brief instruction on how to do this.
When in device manager all I get is the question mark and I am unable to figure out the actual name of the vendor or model of the card. This is making my search to find the correct driver hard.
Anyone know how I to find out more about the hardware that does not have drivers?
- In this Article: Finding Hardware IDs Using Hardware IDs to Find Drivers Community Q&A References If you have hardware in your computer that is not functioning properly and you're not sure what it is or who made it, you can use the device's Hardware ID to identify it.
- From the list, double-click device you would like to locate the driver for. A 'Device Properties' window will open. Step 3: Locate 'HardwareID' entry * Look for the tab labeled 'Details' and click on it; * Select 'Hardware Ids' from the Property list. Only the first line is needed.
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Use PCI database (online website)
- go to the device manager
- open the properties of the unknown device
- click on
details → Hardware IDs
- extract the vendor ID and the device ID like shown in the screenshot
- search on the PCI database for the vender and database ID.
The database is regularly updated by users. Scroll down Intel's page as an example.
The results will show a driver name which can be googled
Use Unknown Devices (portable offline tool)
The portable tool even shows old drivers which are normally only visible if you type
SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
in an elevated CMD prompt before opening the device manager.Use DriverIdentifier (offline tool with online database)
Install it or extract it with UniExtract if you need a portable version. It will scan your drivers and compare them with its online database.
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I needed the sound and video drivers for a unknown motherboard of a computer I was fixing and I found a solution here: http://www.kmbytes.com/blog/2014/07/23/how-to-check-motherboard-drivers/
It is a little program that has to be installed and couple of button clicks. Worked like a charm for me. Cheers!
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-Open up device manager by right clicking on Computer (or My Computer pre-Win7) and go down to “Manage”.
-Click on “Device Manager” through the Computer Management Window.
-An alternate way to get to device manager would be right clicking on Computer, going to properties, clicking on the hardware tab, and going to device manager. However, in Windows 7, if you right click on Computer and go to properties, the Device Manager link is on the left hand side of the menu.
-In the Device Manager menu, whichever way you got to it, find the driver that is missing (yellow question mark).
-Right click on that driver and go to “Properties”
-In the properties menu, click on the “Details” tab.
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-In the details tab, click the dropdown and select “Device Id’s”.
-When you have that sub menu opened up below, you should see a sentence containing a couple things you need.
-This is what it would look like for example:
-PCIVEN_10DE&DEV_03D1&SUBSYS_14041565&REV_A2 (Might be a couple extra lines containing similar stuff, but the main things you need are the VEN and DEV).
-This is what it would look like for example:
-PCIVEN_10DE&DEV_03D1&SUBSYS_14041565&REV_A2 (Might be a couple extra lines containing similar stuff, but the main things you need are the VEN and DEV).
-With that data up, you should see “VEN_xxxx” and “DEV_xxxx”. These two things are you Vendor and Device Id’s. You need both of these for the next steps, so where “xxxx” is, right down whatever your hardware ID says. Mine for example was “VEN_10DE” and “DEV_03D1”.
-Now with this data go to the website www.pcidatabase.com.
-In the textbox “Vendor” on their main page, type in your 4 digit “VEN” number/letter combination from your hardware ID you pulled from device manager. Mine, once again, was “VEN_10DE” (you don’t need to enter “VEN”, just the number/letter combo).
Hardware Id Lookup Pci
-After entering that vendor number, it will bring up the vendor (manufacturer) of that piece of hardware.
-Click on the vendor/manufacturer to continue to the next step (mine was Nvidia Corporation).
-Now the next page has almost every single piece of hardware that the manufacturer/vendor has made.
-Pull up your “Find” in your browser by pressing “Ctrl+F”. In the find window, type in your device number (mine was “03D1”, you never need to enter “dev or ven” at all in the website). My device that came up was “NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 405”. Yours will be different.
-If all goes well, you should be able to find your piece of hardware on that specific webpage.
-Unfortunately, not every single device on that website has direct links to driver downloads, so you’ll have to do a Google search to find appropriate drivers, but at least you now know what hardware in your PC is missing a driver.
1 Steps total
Drivers By Hardware Id
Step 1: See above.
I also attached a word document on how to do this so it's easier to print off.
Hardware Vendor Id Lookup
howto.doc
Hardware Device Id Lookup
This was kind of a long “How To” for an easy task, but once you do it a couple times it becomes incredibly easy. Doing these steps helps IMMENSELY when you are dealing with a Custom PC or an Upgraded PC where you don’t know exactly what is in it or you don’t feel like opening up the PC and taking a look at the part.
Hope a few people get some use out of this; it has helped me a lot in numerous situations before.
Published: Aug 18, 2010 · Last Updated: Oct 29, 2011
8 Comments
- Thai PepperEmerson Leal Sep 27, 2010 at 02:03pmVery good information, nice job.
- JalapenoMbrown Sep 27, 2010 at 04:57pmThank you sir, appreciate it. Now if I could just two more spice-ups to get credit........
- AnaheimMike shepard Feb 16, 2011 at 01:55pmnice..just made my tracking down drivers much easier
- PoblanoCassidy953 Feb 25, 2011 at 08:38amThis one just made it to my how to book thanks for the great info.
- MaceNetworkNerd Oct 29, 2011 at 10:20pmSomeone at Dell told me about this wonderfully helpful site. Thanks for the informative write up.
- DatilPaolo0111 Nov 29, 2011 at 07:04amThanks for the help. Often I groped in the dark for drivers not found. I'll try soon.
- SonoraJohnathan1013 Sep 23, 2013 at 08:11pmThanks so much, really helped me out to resolve my problem with a missing driver! :) Well written!
- Cayennensweeting2 Oct 8, 2013 at 12:38pmI've been using pcidatabase for a few years now. Its good to see someone in the community has been spreading the word.