ost of the computer hardware's comes along with
their respective device drivers in a disc.If your
driver CD gets lost or corrupted,then you can
always download the necessary drivers from the
manufacturer's website or restore the drivers
from the backup if you have created earlier.
But if you do not have a backup and is unsure
about the manufacture of the device or your
device model,then you will not be able to search
the device driver online and windows will be
showing errors like “Unkown device Found” or
“Device not identified” in your system tray.Here is
an excellent trick to find out the correct drivers
for the unknown devices in your device manager.
How to Download Drivers for Unknown Devices
1) Find the Vendor and Device ID of the
unknown device.To do this,
Open Device Manager
(In windows XP :StartControl
panelSystemHardwareDevice Manager)
(In Windows Vista:StartControl PanelDevice
Manager)
In Device manager,take the properties of
unknown device
In Properties, click on Details tab and select
Device Instance Id from the drop box.
You will see a code like this
HDAUDIOFUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_2C06&SUBSYS_104D1700&REV_1000
Here 14F1 is the Vendor ID
and 2C06 is the Device ID
2)After obtaining both device and vendor ID,go
to
http://pcidatabase.com
and search with your vendor ID or device ID to
find the driver of the unknown device.
After finding your device model and
manufacturer,you can either go to the
manufactures website and download the
necessary drivers or you can get them from these
websites.
http://www.driverfiles.net/
http://driverzone.com/
http://www.driverguide.com/