Unknown PCI device???
Unknown PCI device???
Hey ppl.
I have a pci device that does not have any drivers. Here's the kicker! i dont know what this device is. . . I have installed all my hardware drivers from the cd's that came with it. how can I determine what this device is and get a driver for it?
I have a pci device that does not have any drivers. Here's the kicker! i dont know what this device is. . . I have installed all my hardware drivers from the cd's that came with it. how can I determine what this device is and get a driver for it?
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I can relate - I hate having unknow devices sitting in hardware manager
I would say disconnect all peripherals you can until you have the barebones PC, ie sound cards, usb devices the lot. If you board has built in video, rip the video card out too.
Then add devices one at a time until the unknow device reappears.
If it's still there with just the board, it must be a board device and the drivers should be on the mobo CD that came with the board. Select the "root" folder of the CD rather than any specific folder and XP should search the whole CD until it finds a river it likes.
I had two unknown devices with my asus board that turned out to be the system off cd player and some other equally obscure unused device.
I would say disconnect all peripherals you can until you have the barebones PC, ie sound cards, usb devices the lot. If you board has built in video, rip the video card out too.
Then add devices one at a time until the unknow device reappears.
If it's still there with just the board, it must be a board device and the drivers should be on the mobo CD that came with the board. Select the "root" folder of the CD rather than any specific folder and XP should search the whole CD until it finds a river it likes.
I had two unknown devices with my asus board that turned out to be the system off cd player and some other equally obscure unused device.
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I think what i am going to try is. . . i'm going to go to that install driver screen where it asks you to put the driver cd in, then im going to try that with all the cd's i have containing drivers. will let you know what i find. . . if that don't work, i'm goin to strip down to the bares.Belix wrote:I can relate - I hate having unknow devices sitting in hardware manager
I would say disconnect all peripherals you can until you have the barebones PC, ie sound cards, usb devices the lot. If you board has built in video, rip the video card out too.
Then add devices one at a time until the unknow device reappears.
If it's still there with just the board, it must be a board device and the drivers should be on the mobo CD that came with the board. Select the "root" folder of the CD rather than any specific folder and XP should search the whole CD until it finds a river it likes.
I had two unknown devices with my asus board that turned out to be the system off cd player and some other equally obscure unused device.
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Or, go to Device Manager, then check under the device properties for a hardware id, similar to the following:
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&SUBSYS_0B121002&REV_00
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&SUBSYS_0B121002
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&CC_0300
Then you can search the net for it.
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&SUBSYS_0B121002&REV_00
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&SUBSYS_0B121002
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_724B&CC_0300
Then you can search the net for it.
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hmm thats a good point! i remember reading something like this before.warmachine wrote:Dont suppose youre running an ati graphics card? i had that problem too cos the new ati cards have that built in audio device that you have to manually install. maybe? i dont know if nvidia has the same probelmo?
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