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Re: Indentifying an Unknown Device in Device Manager
"koze" wrote:
> If you click in device manager on the unknown device and open up the drivers
> tab, you do have a tab "Detail" in there you will find a "Acpi/PNP???????.."
> (the ??? represents a number) with a number copy that and type it into a
> search engine, you will have a big chance to see what type of device it is
> and sometimes also the brand so you can go the the mfgr's website to pick up
> some drivers, if there are drivers for it!.
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> Ko.
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> "prodonjs" <prodonjs@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
> news:E1DE54BA-1546-48CE-AF4D-594C841CEEDA@microsoft.com...
> >I was curious to see if anyone had a suggestion about trying to find out
> >some
> > way of identifying a device's name. I have an unknown device listed in my
> > Device Manager, but I cannot figure out what it is. It does not appear to
> > be
> > anything I am in need of; it's not a firewire, USB, network, wireless,
> > sound,
> > or display adapter and all of the my hardware devices work properly. I did
> > think that it could have been a touchpad driver since I don't have the
> > nice
> > Synaptics manager that I used to have when I had XP installed, but I am
> > unsure and I think I created some problems for myself last time by trying
> > to
> > install some drivers for devices that I wasn't positive that I needed or
> > that
> > were incompatible with Vista.
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