Determine the equipment ID. The best programs to automatically update Windows drivers

Salute, readers.

So let's start from the beginning. When you purchase a computer, along with the kit, you are provided with disks with drivers for your equipment (video card, sound card, etc.).

If you decide to reinstall the system, then naturally all the drivers will be lost and you will need to reinstall them. But what if you don’t have these disks left, or are simply lost? In this case, we need to download the driver from the Internet, but first we need to determine the code of that device.

Procedure

If you are using Windows XP, the Details tab will be Device Instance ID.

• There, in the information, the information we need will appear, namely the equipment ID.
• Now we copy this value and go to the site https://devid.info.

• In the search field we insert the found code (ID) of the device and click “OK”. Within a short period of time you will be provided with a list of drivers that are suitable for your device.

That's all.

See you soon, friends.

In modern computers, each device requires a driver for proper and full functioning. Unfortunately, manufacturers do not always include discs with drivers. In the end? The driver disk may simply be lost. In this article I will tell you how to search for drivers for a device by its code, and how to find out this code.

To search for a device driver, you need to know 2 things: the device code or id and the resource where the drivers can be searched. Let's start with the device id.
To find out the part code you need to:

1. Open Start, find the item Computer and left-click on it, select control.

2. in the left window select the item device Manager.

3. In the right window of Device Manager select a device which requires a driver, such devices are indicated by a yellow triangle. Select the device and right-click on it, open the item Properties.

4. In the window that opens, open the tab Intelligence and select from the drop-down menu Equipment ID(in Windows XP Device Instance Code).

5. This window will show device code, copy it using the Ctrl + C key combination or the mouse and go search for drivers by id on the network.

Now about where to look for drivers by code.
One of the most common driver search services is its analogue www.devid.info.

Having a device code you only need enter it in the search field and click search. After which you will be prompted some links with drivers that suit your device, download them and install them. After installing the drivers, you must reboot PC.

Now searching for a driver by id will not be a problem for you, your search will be easy.

Good afternoon, dear readers, today I want to tell you how to determine device instance code in Windows, what it is and why it might be useful to you. Let’s imagine a situation where you connected an old device to your computer, but it doesn’t work for you because there are no drivers for your operating system, and you don’t have a disk with them, this is where the device instance code will help you in finding them, which is the easiest way to identify the ones you need, rather than wandering through a bunch of sites looking for the necessary drivers.

We are looking for a driver by the device instance code

And so, above I described to you the situation when you connected a device, but it was detected as unknown, here is an example of a usb com port in Windows. First, to determine the device instance code, you need to get into Device Manager. To open the manager in Windows 10, or other versions, click

Win+R and enter devmgmt.msc

Suppose your system could not find a driver for the com port, in the properties of this device you can find the error Device descriptor request failed code 43. Right-click on the required equipment and select properties from the context menu.

Go to the Details tab and select the Hardware ID item, this will help us find the device instance code in Windows 10.

In the value field you will find several fields with the required values, you need to copy them and try to search for drivers using them in a search engine, in Google or Yandex.

For a network card, for example, you can find four values.

After you have downloaded the necessary drivers, right-click on the required hardware and select Update Drivers.

An important problem that any user very often faces is searching for a driver by device code. Yes, nowadays there are many programs for searching for drivers, sites offering these services, good people with gigabyte flash drives for almost all devices. But imagine a situation where there is no help code nearby, but the issue needs to be resolved!

Finding a driver by device instance code

Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System, on the right side of the screen we find the “Device Manager” link, click on it. In the list we find a device that does not have drivers (a yellow exclamation mark is displayed next to it). Right-click on it and select “Properties”

A window will open in which information with an error code will be provided.

Now we need to go to the “Details” section. In the menu, select “Device Instance Code” and copy the data that will be provided below.

We need to insert this information into the search bar on the website www.devid.info

At the end, all that remains is to download and install.

There is also a similar portal that will help in the search - www.pcidatabase.com. Here you just need to insert the numbers into Vendor Search, which come after Ven_. And in Device Search, those that are after DEV_.

How to find a driver by device code, this is precisely the question that arises very often in front of people who often have to install operating systems on computers with different components inside. For each such component, be it for example a video card or a TV tuner, there is its own driver, may advanced users forgive me, I’ll tell you in a nutshell what a driver is.

A driver is a program with which your operating system gains access to the hardware of a certain device, for example measures a video card or, in simple words, a translator explaining to the operating system how to use your video card.

How to find a driver by device code

After reinstalling Windows, we immediately go to the device manager, we can use the menu command Run Start>Run and type mmc devmgmt.msc

or in another way, right-click on the My Computer icon, then select control and device manager from the drop-down menu and look at our verdict: we do not have drivers for the sound and video card, the most important thing is that the drivers for the network card were automatically installed and we have the Internet, again experienced users may notice: what will you do if you don’t have Internet, we will get out of this situation, read our articles about finding drivers. First, let's identify our sound card by device code.

To find driver by device code: select the device we need in the right window of the device manager and select “Properties”. By the way, here you can select the first item to update the driver and the hardware update wizard will try to automatically find and install the driver, but we are moving away from the topic.

Select “Properties”, then in the properties window go to the “Information” tab and select “ Device Instance ID", select it with the mouse and copy it by pressing the key combination Ctrl + C; Further We find the driver by the device code. To search for drivers, many users use the site www.devid.info

So, to search for sound card drivers, we use the site devid.info. Here we need to paste the copied device code into the search field and click search.

And now we have found our driver for the ATI HDMI Audio sound card, select our operating system and download the archive, unzip it and run the installer, after installation we reboot and we get sound.

• The devid.info website is good, but let’s say we couldn’t find a driver there; alternatively, we’ll use the resource pcidatabase.com, which has almost everything.

Now, as we planned, we find the video card driver using the device code through the pcidatabase.com resource. On the main page of the site we need to enter the characters Ven - the vendor, also known as the manufacturer of the device and DEV - the device, the four characters after these letters are the identification number of our device. We look at the properties of our video card in our device manager, then write down the information, write down Ven - vendor, that is, the manufacturer of our device, the number VEN_10DE is clearly visible in the illustration and also write down DEV - device, also known as device DEV_0614