Tips---How to identify an Unknown Devices?

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Sometimes you may have a problem, that there is an unknown device in your device manager. For example, if you make a clean installation of an operating system. this can be find by the vendor ID and the device ID of an unknown device.

Step 1: Press the "Windows Key" and the "Break Key" on your Keyboard at the same time and the system window will open.

Step 2: Click on "Device Manager" on the upper left of the page to open it.

Step 3: Now the "Device Manager" will open and you can see, if there are any unknown device listed,(unknown devices are shown with a yellow exclamation mark).

Step 4: To find the vendor ID and the device ID of an unknown device, there should be more than one way to the finish. but we use a way with the "system information" to get the needed information.

Step 5: Go to System Information--->Components--->Problem Devices

Step 6: Now you will see a List of Devices with the PNP device ID and the suitable Error Code.

Step 7: To identify the device, we need the "Vendor ID (VEN_xxxx)" (1) and the "Device ID (DEV_xxxx)" (2) which are contained in the PNP Device ID.

Step 8: Now use the website www.pcidatabase.com, to identify our unknown device.

Step 9: On the homepage of pcidatabase, you can find two search fields. One for the Vendor Search and one for the Device Search. You can use any one (Vendor ID or Device ID) for searching the device.

Hope this information will help you in finding the Unknown Devices.

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