You've just installed windows on a computer.
You have a few unknown devices in the device manager. You google the title of this post.
Bingo! microsoft have an answer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314464
So you go to windows update website and you bend over backwards activating then genuine validating your windows system.
Windows update begins. . . .
Hardware updates are in custom updates section. It finds one newer driver for the network card already installed.
What do i do now?. Well normally i would have know what card went into the computer because i would have brough the card initially but i'm in a university lab on a university computer. Okay so just pop the cover of and start googleing serial numbers.
I don't have a screw driver this second and in fact i also have linux on this machine so i could just boot in to that and run the 'lspci' command. Or i could put a knoppix cd i have next to me and then run 'lspci' but i want to do it in windows.
So i ring the Oracle, He has two ways of doing it. One reboot the computer and get pci id of the bios screen or secondly a nice gentleman named craig has created a lspci command for windows
See pci32.exe @ http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm
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