Vista Tutorial - How do you identify an unknown device in device manager?

How do you identify an unknown device in device manager?
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Chris

Hi,

Sometimes it is really hard to identifying. With Vista is that problem that
often that are problems with drivers. I've met that after Vista installation
I had one unknown device named Mass Storage device. When I installed all
drivers to motherboard (some of them was not dedicated for Vista), device
turned out that it's a sound card ;-)

Marcin Domaslawski



"Chris" <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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> How do you identify an unknown device in device manager?
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> Chris

http://www.pcidatabase.com/

Get the PCI Vendor number and PCI Device numbers from Device Manager and use
the above web site to track them down.

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"Chris" <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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> How do you identify an unknown device in device manager?
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> Chris

"Otto Normalverbraucher" <Otto@Normalverbraucher.com> wrote in message
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> Mary wrote:
>> Quick guess--a component of your sound card that doesn't have drivers for
>> vista yet. My creative card has no vista driver for the gameport and is
>> Unknown pci device.
>> "Chris" wrote:
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>>> How do you identify an unknown device in device manager?
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>>> Chris
>>>
>
> It could be anything...my unknown device of today was quick launch buttons
> on a HP notebook.

I had the unknown device Quicklaunch buttons - funny thing is, there are no
buttons on my Compaq laptop. But installing a driver for them cleared the
error. Go figger!

Val