How do you identify an unknown device in device manager?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Chris
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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
 
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.
 
Mary said:
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.

It could be anything...my unknown device of today was quick launch
buttons on a HP notebook.
 
Otto Normalverbraucher said:
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
 
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