Sometimes, when installing Windows, an unpleasant situation is possible: the system cannot find a driver for some device. Of course, this device may not work correctly or does not work at all.
Instructions
Step 1
However, this problem is solved by means of Windows. To open the context menu, right-click on the "My Computer" icon and select the "Manage" option. Find "Device Manager" in the list and click on it. The list of installed components appears on the right. Devices that the system was unable to identify are marked with a yellow question mark.
Step 2
Right-click on the suspect device to bring up the context menu and select the "Properties" command. In the properties window go to the "Details" tab. The item "Device Instance Code" appears in the list window, and an alphanumeric code appears in the lower window.
Let the code be like this:
PCI / VEN_10DE & DEV_002C & SUBSYS_00000000 & REV_15 / 4 & 384EA2E1 & 0 & 0008
VEN stands for Vendor, DEV stands for Device. The numbers next to these abbreviations are the digital code of the manufacturer and model of the device, written in hexadecimal form.
Step 3
Go to the sit
and in the Search vendors field, enter the vendor code, in this case 10DE.
Step 4
The program searches and returns the result: Nvidia.
Step 5
Click on the name of the company. In the new window, in the Search devices field, enter the device code 002C. The program reports the search result: NVIDIA Vanta / Vanta LT. Thus, the unknown device turned out to be a video card.
Step 6
To find a driver for it, go to the website www.devid.info, paste the device code into the search box and click the Search button. The program displays a list of drivers indexed by release year in ascending order
Step 7
Using the "Download" hyperlink on the new page, you will receive full information about the driver (manufacturer, size, date, operating system) and a download link.
