Find Drivers for Unrecognized Hardware in Windows
July 17th, 2009
Working in IT, there are times I reformat a PC I’m not familiar with, and have a bit of trouble finding hardware drivers. The reason being is that I don’t know every piece of hardware in the machine, since I didn’t build it.
Here is how I find out the model number of the peripheral. Below, you will see a picture of the network card driver info. The NIC card is installed just fine, but let’s say it wasn’t– we would still have the “Details” tab.
Right-click My Computer > Properties > click the Hardware tab > click the Device Manager button > click Details
By clicking the details tab, I am able to see the device ID.
In the beginning of the line PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_10BD&SUBSYS…. VEN stands for the Vendor, this being Intel and DEV for the device in question. All I have to do is go to pcidatabase.com and enter the DEV id 10BD into the device search.
As you can see, we now have the model details of the card, all I have to do is go over to the vendor’s (Intel) website, and do a search for 82566DM on their drivers page, and download.
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