Find the names of the various hardware components on your computer. The most important component is the chipset because it can drive many of the onboard components such as network, sound, and even video. You can find the name and manufacturer of many components on the product specifications for your computer model. Search for your computer model plus the word specifications at the top of this page.

I know i have issues since reading about drivers and software updates for hardware. Drivers for device not installed. I will show below the hardware id for. If you download driver from the PC manufacturer or the device manufacturer. Every device has its own hardware id. Help Us Improve Article.

For example, if you have an HP Pavilion HPE h8-1360t Desktop computer, search for h8-1360t specifications. Then, for the driver.

Open up device manager by right clicking on Computer (or My Computer pre-Win7) and go down to “Manage”. -Click on “Device Manager” through the Computer Management Window. -An alternate way to get to device manager would be right clicking on Computer, going to properties, clicking on the hardware tab, and going to device manager. However, in Windows 7, if you right click on Computer and go to properties, the Device Manager link is on the left hand side of the menu. -In the Device Manager menu, whichever way you got to it, find the driver that is missing (yellow question mark).

-Right click on that driver and go to “Properties” -In the properties menu, click on the “Details” tab. -In the details tab, click the dropdown and select “Device Id’s”.

-When you have that sub menu opened up below, you should see a sentence containing a couple things you need. -This is what it would look like for example: -PCI VEN_10DE&DEV_03D1&SUBSYS_14041565&REV_A2 (Might be a couple extra lines containing similar stuff, but the main things you need are the VEN and DEV). -With that data up, you should see “VEN_xxxx” and “DEV_xxxx”. These two things are you Vendor and Device Id’s. You need both of these for the next steps, so where “xxxx” is, right down whatever your hardware ID says. Mine for example was “VEN_10DE” and “DEV_03D1”. -Now with this data go to the website.

-In the textbox “Vendor” on their main page, type in your 4 digit “VEN” number/letter combination from your hardware ID you pulled from device manager. Mine, once again, was “VEN_10DE” (you don’t need to enter “VEN”, just the number/letter combo). -After entering that vendor number, it will bring up the vendor (manufacturer) of that piece of hardware. -Click on the vendor/manufacturer to continue to the next step (mine was Nvidia Corporation).

-Now the next page has almost every single piece of hardware that the manufacturer/vendor has made. -Pull up your “Find” in your browser by pressing “Ctrl+F”. Download Intel Sis Chipset Driver For Dell more. In the find window, type in your device number (mine was “03D1”, you never need to enter “dev or ven” at all in the website).

My device that came up was “NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 405”. Yours will be different. -If all goes well, you should be able to find your piece of hardware on that specific webpage. -Unfortunately, not every single device on that website has direct links to driver downloads, so you’ll have to do a Google search to find appropriate drivers, but at least you now know what hardware in your PC is missing a driver.