Hi All,
This is a Step by step Guide to get the Hardware IDS to find and download specific Drivers for Units that have device driver Issues.
1: Open “device manager” from the “Control panel”.
2: Search for any device that shows up as “unknown” or “Other device”.
3: Right click on the device and select ”properties” as shown in the image below.
4: Go to the “details tab” and select the option “Hardware IDS”[In windows 7 this should be the second option in the drop down list]
5: Please copy the VEN_XXXX and DEV_XXXX number as displayed above.
Open Your System browser [Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) and visit http://www.pcidatabase.com
Enter the 4 digit number after VEN_ in the Vendor search Field and Click on Search as shown below.
Similarly, you can enter the 4 digit number after the DEV_ field in the Device Search Field to get information on the type of device.
Once done, you can look up the same driver from the computer manufacturer's website.
Cheers,
TechAider
