How to determine the necessary drivers for your computer. How to find out the video card driver version

Hello regular readers of the blog site. In previous articles, we discussed with you such issues as automatic and manual installation of drivers for a computer and laptop. But sometimes a situation occurs when the driver is not installed either manually or automatic mode because Windows cannot determine which driver is needed. Typically, such a device is marked in the device manager with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, which indicates that the driver is not installed or the device is not working correctly.

In addition, the device manager does not yet tell you what exactly this equipment is and why exactly you need to look for a driver.

Let's look at the principle of identifying and searching for the right driver. Although I have all the devices installed, I will still show you with an example. Moreover, this will be an additional check to see if we have identified the driver correctly. So, let's go to the device manager and imagine that I don't have drivers for the webcam. So, we launch the device manager and find the equipment we need. In my case it's a web camera.

In the properties window, open the details tab and select “Hardware ID”

This is where the device identifier comes in. Namely, from here we need to take two parameters by which we will determine the device and its driver.

The first parameter is VID 045E

The second parameter is PID 0779

In principle, we only need numbers without any underscores or other characters.

At this stage, the principle of determining the driver is that we need to find information about this device on the Internet using these two parameters, i.e. what is it called.

So, we enter VID and PID in search bar(for example in Yandex) and click “Find”

In the search results, we look at which device our VID and PID are defined for. Here I see a site on which a device with my values ​​is indicated. Let's go to this site.

Yeah, I see! Now I know what kind of device the driver requires. At this stage, we just found out which device needs updating or installing “firewood”.

Now we need to find the official website of the developer of this equipment. To do this, enter the name into the search engine and click on the “Find” button. In the search results we find the official website. In my case it is "Microsoft". You can have any other manufacturer, but the principle remains the same for everyone.

We go to the official website (from there we will definitely download real drivers without any viruses). We find the support or downloads section (depending on the manufacturer’s website). Select a device (in my case it is a web camera). We find our model.

Now all we have to do is unpack and run the file with the “.exe” extension.

A device driver is a special software, allowing operating system access and interact with specific PC hardware. Installing drivers is a critical component of the hardware configuration process when installing or changing an operating system. In addition, to optimize the performance of your PC, you need to update it in a timely manner. outdated drivers. Let's take a closer look at how to find out which drivers are needed in certain situations.

When installing a “clean” operating system, the user must independently install drivers for everything optional equipment(sound and video adapters, network cards, USB controllers, etc.). But even after installing the “build” of the OS, where the drivers are installed automatically, it is worth checking their relevance and, if necessary, updating to newer ones. We will look for all information about the devices of this PC and their drivers in the Device Manager (properties “My Computer” - “Device Manager”). In the Manager window, first of all, click on the “Update hardware configuration” icon. Equipment without installed or incorrectly working drivers will be displayed in the list as an “unknown” or “other” device. If you have a disk with drivers for your PC, you can start installing them. manual installation using the appropriate function in the equipment properties.

If there is no such disk or we need to check the relevance of the installed drivers, look in the device properties for its full name, version and date of development installed driver. In addition to this information, to search for drivers, we also need to know the version and bitness of our OS (“My Computer” - “Properties” - “General”).

Then we look for necessary drivers in sections technical support on the websites of equipment manufacturers or a specific computer, if we are dealing, for example, with a laptop. We check the version and development date of the driver, as well as compatibility with our operating system.

Thus, knowing the manufacturer and full name of the device, version and bitness of the OS, you can find and install the most current drivers for your PC. And if the device model is not displayed in the Manager, use the instructions in the video attached below. We also recommend that before making any changes to the hardware and system configuration, create.

Probably everyone who has at least once reinstalled an operating system on their own has had a popular question: how to find out which drivers need to be installed on a computer for its stable operation? It is this question that we will try to answer in this article. Let's take a closer look.

In theory, you need to install software for all devices that require it on your computer or laptop. Over time, operating system developers are constantly expanding the base Microsoft drivers. And if in Windows times XP had to install almost all the drivers manually, but in the case of newer operating systems, many drivers are already installed automatically. However, there are still devices for which software must be installed manually. We bring to your attention a number of methods that will help you resolve this issue.

Method 1: Official websites of manufacturers

In order to install all the necessary drivers, you need to install software for all boards in your computer. This means the motherboard, video card and external boards (network adapters, sound cards and so on). At the same time, in "Device Manager" It may not be indicated that the hardware requires drivers. When installing the operating system, the standard software for the device was simply used. However, the software for such devices must be installed original. Most of all installed software is on the motherboard and the chips integrated into it. Therefore, first we will search for all drivers for motherboard, and then for the video card.

1. Find out the manufacturer and model of the motherboard. To do this, press the keys "Win+R" on the keyboard and in the window that opens, enter the command "cmd" to open the command line.



2. IN command line you need to enter the commands one by one:
   wmic baseboard get Manufacturer
   wmic baseboard get product
   Don't forget to click "Enter" after entering each command. As a result, you will see the manufacturer and model of your motherboard on the screen.



3. Now we look for the manufacturer’s website on the Internet and go to it. In our case it is .
4. On the site we look for a search field or the corresponding button in the form of a magnifying glass. As a rule, by clicking on this button you will see a search field. In this field you must enter the motherboard model and click "Enter".



5. On the next page you will see the search result. You need to select your motherboard from the list. Usually there are several subsections under the name of the board model. If there is a section "Drivers" or "Downloads", click on the name of such a section and go to it.



6. In some cases, the following page may be divided into subsections with software. If this is the case, then look for and select the subsection "Drivers".



7. The next step is to select the operating system and bitness from the drop-down list. Please note that in some cases there may be differences in the driver lists when selecting different operating systems. Therefore, look not only at the system that you have installed, but also at the versions below.



8. After selecting your OS, you will see a list of all the software that your motherboard needs to communicate with other computer components. You need to download them all and install them. Downloading occurs automatically after clicking the button, "Download" or the corresponding icon. If you downloaded an archive with drivers, then before installation, be sure to extract all its contents into one separate folder. After that, install the software.



9. After you install all the software for your motherboard, move on to the video card.
10. Press the key combination again "Win+R" and in the window that appears, enter the command "dxdiag". Click to continue "Enter" or button "OK" in the same window.



11. In the diagnostic tool window that opens, go to the tab "Screen". Here you can find out the manufacturer and model of your graphics adapter.



12. If you have a laptop, then you must also go to the tab "Converter". Here you can see information about the second discrete video card.



13. After you have found out the manufacturer and model of your video card, you need to go to the company’s official website. Here is the list of download pages largest producers graphics adapters.
14. On these pages you need to indicate the model of your video card and the operating system with bit depth. After this, you can download the software and install it. Please note that it is preferable to install software for the graphics adapter from the official website. Only in this case will they be installed special components, which will increase the performance of the video card and allow for its detailed configuration.
15. Once you install the software for your graphics adapter and motherboard, you need to check the result. To do this we open "Device Manager". Press a combination of buttons "Win" And "R" on the keyboard, and in the window that opens, write the command devmgmt.msc. After that, click "Enter".
16. As a result, you will see a window "Device Manager". It should not contain unidentified devices or equipment with question marks or exclamation marks next to the name. If this is the case, then you have installed all the necessary drivers. And if such components are present, we recommend using one of the following methods.

Method 2: Utilities for automatic software updates

If you are too lazy to search and install all the software manually, then you should take a closer look at programs that are designed to make this task easier. Review on most popular programs For automatic search and we carried out software updates in a separate article.

You can use any of the described utilities. But we still recommend using either. These are programs with the largest base of drivers and supported hardware. We have already told you how to use DriverPack Solution.

So let us tell you how to find and install all drivers using the program Driver Genius. So, let's begin.

1. Let's launch the program.
2. You will immediately find yourself on it home page. There's a green button in the middle here. "Start checking". Feel free to click on it.



3. The scanning process of your computer or laptop will start. After a few minutes, you will see a list of all devices for which you need to download and install the software. Since we are not looking for a specific driver, we tick all the available boxes. After that, press the button "Further" in the lower area of ​​the program window.



4. In the next window you will see a list of devices for which drivers have already been updated using this utility, and those devices for which the software still needs to be downloaded and installed. The last device type is marked with a gray circle next to the name. To be safe, just press the button "Download All".



5. After this, the program will try to connect to the servers to download necessary files. If everything goes well, you will be returned to the previous window, where you can track the software download progress in the corresponding line.



6. When all components are loaded, the icon next to the device name will turn green with a downward arrow. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to install all the software with one button. Therefore, we highlight the line with necessary device and press the button "Install".



7. If desired, create a restore point. You will be prompted for this in the next dialog box. Choose the answer that matches your decision.



8. After this, the driver installation process for the selected device will begin, during which standard problems may arise. dialog boxes. You just need to read them licensing agreements and press buttons "Further". You shouldn't have any problems at this stage. After installing this or that software, you may be asked to reboot the system. If such a message appears, we recommend that you do so. When the driver is successfully installed, Driver program Genius will have a green checkmark opposite the line with the equipment.



9. Thus, it is necessary to install software for all equipment from the list.
10. At the end, you can scan your computer again to be sure. If you have installed all the drivers, you will see a similar message.



11. Additionally, you can check if all software is installed using "Device Manager" as described at the end of the first method.
12. If there are still unidentified devices, try the next method.

Method 3: Online services

If the previous methods did not help you, you can only rely on this option. Its meaning is that we will search for software manually using the unique device identifier. In order not to duplicate information, we recommend that you read our lesson.

In it you will find detailed information about how to find the ID and what to do with it next. And also a guide to using the two largest online driver search services.

Method 4: Manual driver update

This method is the least effective of all the above. However, in very rare cases he will be able to help install the software. Here's what it takes.

These are the most effective ways identify devices for which you need to install software. We hope one of the proposed options will help you resolve this issue. Don't forget to update the software for your devices on time. If you have any difficulties finding or installing drivers, write in the comments. Together we will fix everything.

If you assembled your computer yourself, buying components for it separately, then in this case all the drivers for the computer can no longer be found on one single manufacturer’s website, as it would be easy to do when buying a ready-made computer (this is described in the article “How to find drivers if you purchased a laptop or a ready-made desktop computer!"). After all, you didn’t buy ready computer, which would belong to some manufacturer, would have its own model and drivers for which could be downloaded all at once from one site. Once the computer is assembled from the spare parts you independently selected, it means that it will no longer correspond to any model and belong to any manufacturer, because it is already your creation :) Therefore, you will have to look for drivers separately for all the devices from which the computer was assembled. This also includes the case when, after purchasing a ready-made (already assembled) computer, after some time you decided to replace some hardware.

Now I'll show you how to find everything necessary drivers for a self-configured computer manually, via the Internet.

What drivers are is described in the article:

So, you yourself selected all the components, assembled the computer, installed Windows and see that the drivers are not installed for all devices, and maybe not even installed for almost any. You can find out whether all drivers are installed from standard utility"Device Manager". I described how to do this in a separate article.

And to install drivers in this case there are several options.

Note!
If you have not even automatically installed drivers for network cards, which does not give you the opportunity to access the Internet from this computer, then all the actions discussed below will have to be performed from some other computer with Internet access. And after you download all the drivers, you will need to transfer them to the right computer, for example, via a flash drive or disk.

Option #1. Search for drivers manually using device codes via the website devid.drp.su

I think this option is the most optimal. The method involves determining the device code and searching for drivers on the Internet using this code on various sites.

Let's assume that in Device Manager we see something like this:

Those. Drivers for several devices are not installed on the computer. However, it is problematic to determine through the device manager for which devices there are no drivers, because the names are somehow blurry. You can only roughly understand. For example, “Ethernet controller” is most likely LAN card to connect wired internet. « Network Controller" - this is probably Wi-Fi adapter, i.e. network card for accessing the Internet via Wi-Fi.

But each device has its own unique number, which the device manager can show us. And once we know the number, we can find a driver for the device via the Internet.

Let's look at a couple of examples of how to find drivers manually using device codes:

First, I will find a driver for an unknown device " PCI controller Simple Communications".

We determine the device code for which we want to find a driver.

To determine the device code, click on it in the device manager right click mouse and select “Properties” from the menu that appears:

In the window that opens, select the “Information” tab, and then below, under the “Properties” label, select “Hardware ID”:

First of all, we try to search by the code from the lowest (4th) line. Right-click below on the 4th line with the code and select “Copy”.

We are trying to find the driver by code on the website devid.drp.su.

After copying the code, open the site:

David.drp.su

Let's try to find a driver for it. This site refers to the DriverPack Solution program, which collects almost everything possible drivers. Here, with a high degree of probability, you can find a driver for any device.

Having opened the site, the first thing you need to do is paste the device code copied in the previous step into the very top long line and delete in this code everything that comes from the “&” symbol to the end.

For example, you copied the code:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0166 &CC_0300

This means that after removing the characters from “&” you should be left with the code:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0166

If you don't know what system you have, open Windows search and enter “System Information” there, then select the program that appears from the list:

In the program that opens, in the window on the left, select “System Information” and on the right in the “OS Name” line the version of your Windows will be displayed (in my example in the image below “Windows 10”), and in the “Type” line - bitness: x64 or x86:

Based on this data, we indicate the type and bit capacity of the system on the website devid.drp.su.

After the device code is specified and the Windows version is selected, click the “Search Drivers” button.

As a result, a list of drivers will appear on the page that are suitable for the hardware code you specified and for your Windows versions. Using the “Download” button, download one of the drivers to your computer.

Note!
If several identical drivers are displayed (as in the image above), then download the driver that has the most recent release date in the “Driver Version” column.

By clicking on the “Download” button, the driver will be downloaded to your computer and all that remains is to install it. There is nothing complicated at all in installing drivers, and I touched on this point in a separate article.

Note!

It happens that the list of drivers will display different drivers, For example:

This means that the hardware code may be similar for several devices. In this case, you can simply download and try installing all the proposed options until the required driver is installed.

As you can see, the driver was not difficult to find. Now I’ll look at another example to make it more clear :) I’ll find, for example, a driver for a device that is designated as an “Ethernet controller” in the device manager.

I right-click on the device and open properties:

In the window, select the “Details” tab, select “Equipment ID” from the list and copy the code from the 4th line:

I open the website devid.drp.su, indicate the copied number there, and delete everything in it, starting from the “&” symbol. Next, I select the Windows version and perform a search:

For my device and the version of Windows I selected, only one driver version was displayed, which I can download and install:

That's all!

However, it still occasionally happens that the website devid.drp.su does not find drivers for the hardware code you specified. In this case there is also Alternative option, which we will consider below.

An alternative option for searching for drivers by device code

If there are no drivers for the device you need on the well-known website devid.drp.su, then you can use this simple method:

Determining the device code. In the same way, copy the equipment code (4th line):

We are looking for a driver on various sites.

Now we go to the Google.com website and paste the copied code directly into the search bar, after which we remove the “&” symbol and everything that follows it from the code, for example:

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3A &SS_0780= PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3A

We press the search button and a list of sites that match our request is displayed in front of us:

Now you need to open sites one by one, starting from the very first (top) and see if you can download drivers on the site.

It’s worth noting right away that you won’t find the driver you need on all sites, since some of them will not have a driver for your version of Windows, and some will have all sorts of crap instead of drivers.

In the example image above, I circled those sites where drivers can actually most often be found and downloaded without any problems. These are the sites:

If you dig deeper into the search, you can find other sites where you can download the required driver. But you should not look for drivers on forums, since this is the most long haul. You will have to read all the messages in a row to understand where the link to the driver you need is given.

Now let's look at a couple of examples of downloading drivers from different sites.

An example of downloading a driver from driver.ru:

When you get to the site from the search results, the page will already display drivers, most of which are compatible with your device.

Here you can simply download all the drivers that the site displays one by one and try installing them until the desired driver is installed. All incompatible drivers will either not be installed or simply will not work, so there is no need to be afraid of installing the wrong one.

Remember to pay attention to the version of Windows for which the driver is intended.

Keep in mind!
Drivers for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are very often compatible and if, for example, you couldn’t find drivers specifically for Windows 8.1, then try installing drivers for Windows 8. Or if you couldn’t find drivers for Windows 10, try installing from Windows 8.1 or Windows 8. It also happens that drivers for Windows 7 will be compatible with Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10. That is. You can try installing drivers from different systems.

Let's look at an example of the download process from this site. Having found the driver you need, click on the download button below:

In the next window, you need to confirm that you are not a robot by checking the box provided (see image below). Then click the “Download” button below:

And finally, on the next page we will see at the very top a download link in the form of a file name with the extension:

Click on it and download the file.

An example of downloading a driver from members.driverguide.com:

By going to the site from a search engine, the page will display a list of drivers that are likely compatible with your device:

Clicking on the download button will open new page where it catches your eye a large number of advertising.

Attention!
Do not click anywhere if there is a lot of advertising on the site, be careful, otherwise you can pick up viruses and other infections on your computer!

In the next window, a window will appear in the center to confirm that you a real man, not a program :) You need to wait for the contents of the window to load and click the "Show" button:

A new window will open, where we again wait a few seconds for the content to load. A code will appear in the window next to the inscription: “Enter.” This code needs to be rewritten exactly as it is in the line below (“Your Answer”) and click “Return to Page”:

You will be returned to the original page where the “Continue” button will now appear. Clicking it will begin downloading the driver to your computer:

Like this alternative way You can try to manually find drivers by device code. Of course, for this option, I showed examples of downloading the driver from only 2 sites, and their great amount. But the principle of downloading on all sites is the same. The only difference is mostly the interface and sometimes the download order.

But I am more inclined that you can easily find drivers using the main method proposed in option No. 1.

Option #2. Search for drivers on the official websites of device manufacturers

If you were unable to find drivers for your devices using option 1, then you can do it this way.

You will need to look at the manufacturer and model of each device on the computer through their documentation or special programs (for example, Aida64 or Sysinfo Detector), and then separately look for drivers for each device through the manufacturer’s official website or (if there are no drivers on the official website) on the Internet by device model.

Let's take this example. In the device manager, I can see that the driver for the video card and some other incomprehensible device is not installed in the system:

How did you determine that it was on the video card? But because if in the list of devices in the “Video adapters” section there is a device “Standard VGA graphics adapter“, this means there is no driver for the video card, otherwise the device would have the name of your video card, for example “NVIDIA GeForce GTX980”.

Let's look at the sequence of your actions:

Find out the manufacturer and model of the device.

Note!
If you have " Unknown device", then probably the driver for some device on the motherboard or a special program for the motherboard is not installed. Therefore, you must first install all the drivers for your motherboard and programs for it.

If you assembled a computer from separate components, then you might still have documents for each purchased device, which indicates what we need - manufacturer and model. If there is no documentation left, then one of the programs that detects the hardware of your computer will help you find out the model. I recommend Aida64 or Sysinfo Detector. The first one is paid, but you can use it for free for 30 days. And the second one has a completely free edition. If you are thinking about what to choose, then temporarily choose Aida64, since the quality of this program will still be higher.

How to install and use the Aida64 program is described in the article:

How to install and use Sysinfo Detector is described in the article:

If you define devices through the Aida64 program then you can determine what devices without drivers are by selecting the “Devices >” section on the left Windows devices" and then on the right open the category "Unknown". Information about the selected device will appear below:

So, in my example, the unknown device is called “Asus ATK-110 ACPI Utility”.

I mentioned above that an unknown device is most likely something on the motherboard, so let’s immediately determine which motherboard is in the device. To do this, open the “Motherboard” section and go to the same subsection. On the right in the window we will see the manufacturer and model motherboard: Asus P5KPL-AM EPU.

Now let's look at the video card. The video card is usually correctly detected in Aida64 through the Display > PCI/AGP Video section. As you can see, the program has identified the video card: “ nVIDIA GeForce GT 430":

If you are looking at devices through Sysinfo Detector, then you can see devices with uninstalled drivers in 2 ways. The first one is in the “Deviations” section:

As you can see, the same device was detected as through the Aida64 program: ACPI/ATK0110

And the second way is to select the “Unknown devices” subsection in the “PCI devices” section. Here the program immediately saw 3 “problem” devices and one of them was the motherboard: Asus P5KPL-AM EPU.

It is better to look at the manufacturer and model of the video card in the “PCI devices” section. In the list, find the “Display controller” subsection:

The example shows that the manufacturer NVIDIA cards, and the model is GeForce GT 430.

So, we have found out the necessary data and now we will look for the driver.

We are looking for a driver on device manufacturer websites.

We found out that there is a missing driver most likely for some device on the motherboard, or maybe some program specifically for the motherboard. The manufacturer of the board is Asus, and the model in my example is P5KPL-AM EPU. Since the manufacturer is Asus, we will look on the official Asus website.

How to search for the official website of the device manufacturer and download drivers from it is described in detail. In short, you need to open a search engine Google system, type the name of the manufacturer there and open the first site in the search results. Next, go to the “Service” or “Support” section and specify the device model, for example:

In addition to the drivers, pay attention to the “Utilities” section (you can see it in the list in the image above), because sometimes the “Unidentified Device” is some kind of uninstalled special program for the motherboard. It is better to install the entire motherboard kit provided on the site to check if this was the problem.

This example demonstrates searching for drivers for a motherboard. If you install all the drivers and utilities for it, then the “Unknown device” should disappear from the device manager.

Now let's find the driver for the video card. Judging by the data taken from the Aida64 and Sysinfo Detector programs, the video card manufacturer is NVIDIA, and the model is GeForce GT 430. Since the manufacturer is NVIDIA, then we are looking for the official website of this company in the same way via Google:

On the website we immediately see the “Drivers” section and in it the “Download drivers” item. Opening:

A window will open where you need to specify information about the video card. The product type in my example is “GeForce”, if the model is GeForce GT 430, then the product series is “GeForce 400 Series”. It's not difficult to navigate here. Next, in the “Product Family” list, select a specific model – “GeForce GT 430”. All that remains is to select the version of Windows installed on your computer and the driver language. Then click “Search”:

A page will open to download the required driver. Click the “Download Now” button:

On the next page we accept the terms of the agreement and click the “Accept and Download” button:

In the same way, you can download a driver for, in principle, any device, knowing its manufacturer and model. You just need to find the manufacturer’s official website and indicate the model there.

As a last resort, if, for example, you cannot find drivers on the official website, you can search for them on other sites by specifying Google search An example request is: “driver for Asus P5KPL-AM EPU.” Instead of Asus P5KPL-AM EPU, you, accordingly, need to indicate the manufacturer and model of your device for which you are looking for drivers.

Well, in conclusion, I would like to note that if you use Windows 8 and older, then you most likely will not have problems with drivers. In most cases, these systems install all drivers automatically immediately after Windows installations. I tried to reinstall Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 on several laptops and all the drivers were automatically installed on each one, which eliminated the need to search for them myself.

I consider this article complete. Now you can find the driver you need by device code or by its manufacturer and model. Let me remind you that you may need these options for searching for drivers if you independently selected components for your computer or changed some parts in a purchased computer.

It is also possible to automatically install drivers on your computer using special programs. This possibility is described in a separate article:

All the best! See you in other articles :)

Hello everyone dear visitors.

Do you know what drivers are and why no computer user can do without them? Would you like your hardware to work better and faster? In this article I will answer these questions and tell you how to find out which drivers are needed for your computer in your case.

Drivers - what are they and why?

Drivers (sometimes called “Firewood”) are required software that allows you to determine what devices are installed on your computer and tells the operating system how to work with them.

Consequently, if they are not there, then all the devices that are on the computer will refuse to function. In other words, this is some kind of software, without which the OS will not be able to fully understand how to use the capabilities of a particular device.

Operating systems, as a rule, are automatically able to detect such gadgets as a mouse, keyboard, speakers and headphones (operating systems have some built-in drivers). However, the network, sound and video card, external devices(printer, scanner, card reader, webcam, etc.) require separate drivers.

Basically, drivers are written to disks that need to be loaded after installing Windows, or after changing a particular device. However, the developers subject it frequent updates so that you can enjoy better performance from your computer.

Therefore, I advise you to keep an eye on the exit latest versions and install them yourself.

Have you changed any device in your computer? Then you also need to install the driver for it first. New gadgets come with discs, so there will be no problems. But what if you purchased a used device, and the owner long ago threw away the media with the software?

Regardless, it will be helpful for you to learn how to determine what drivers your computer needs and whether updates are available for them.

Where can I find information about drivers on my computer?

To understand which devices on your computer need to install programs, look at Device Manager. Don't know how to do this? We'll teach you.

Each operating system has a slightly different way to open the manager, but the essence is the same. Since they are rare now early versions Windows, I’ll tell you how this is done using the example of the “seven”:

A new window will open where you will see “Device Manager” at the top left.

• When you go to it, another window will appear with a list of components installed on your computer. If next to any of them there is a question mark or Exclamation point, which means you will need firewood for it.

Which ones exactly? Now let's find out:

• On the device you are interested in, right-click.
• Select Properties from the drop-down menu.
• See a window with several tabs? Find “Information” among them.
• Now you have a list in which you need to find the “Equipment ID”.

Finally, you have received the main information about the device, which will help in finding drivers for it. Now all you have to do is enter the received data into the search bar and download the necessary software. I advise you to do this on official websites so that the devices work correctly and you do not have to fight viruses.

DriverPack Solution to help

You don't have the time or desire to manually search for drivers? Use the DriverPack Solution program.

It will always keep you informed about what kind of firewood your computer needs. In addition to ease of use, one of its main advantages is that the program is free.

You can download this driver package here: https://drp.su/ru/foradmin

This software has long established itself as good helper in such matters. At first, users had to create disk images for it, which took up 10 GB. Now everything is much simpler: you only need to download a file of approximately 3 MB in size and perform a basic installation. The developers have finally developed online version package, but an offline version (weighing 10-12GB) is also available.

After installing this program, it will monitor and show which drivers you are missing for sound, video components, external devices, etc. To see them, after scanning is complete, click “Expert Mode”.

See which of the offers you really need, mark these items and click green button"Install automatically." But I don’t recommend installing everything, as DriverPack can give you a lot of extra stuff.

Don't oversleep this moment, it's important.

This concludes your work. All you have to do is wait until the utility finds and downloads the software. This can take quite a long time. Once the process is complete, be sure to reboot your system for the updates to take effect.

There are a bunch of other programs of this kind, but I personally don’t really like them, and most of them are paid.

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