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Devices With Unfound Drivers

#1 Post by KingBubba » Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:20 pm

Base System Device
PCI Serial Device
PCI Simple Communication Device

These three items show up in device manger without drivers. I have loaded all devices that I have found drivers for, but these remain unfound. Can anyone id what drivers I should be looking for? Thanks.

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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#2 Post by theterminator93 » Sat Jan 28, 2017 9:42 pm

In device manager, open the properties dialog for each of the devices. On the Details tab, select the Hardware IDs option from the dropdown menu - then list the VEN and DEV info (usually in the format PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1502). With that info we can ID the device and point you towards the appropriate driver.

Sometimes Windows Update will ID the devices and provide a functional driver for them as well when it checks for/installs updates as well.
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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#3 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sun Jan 29, 2017 8:08 am

This program might help: Unknown Device Identifier v9.01.
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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#4 Post by Mike Blake » Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:02 pm

RealBlackStuff wrote:This program might help: Unknown Device Identifier v9.01.
Years since I used it, but I've had good results from this in the past.

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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#5 Post by HeavyThinker » Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:44 am

KingBubba wrote:Base System Device
PCI Serial Device
PCI Simple Communication Device

These three items show up in device manger without dagens drivers. I have loaded all devices that I have found drivers for, but these remain unfound. Sweden Can anyone id what drivers I should be looking for? Thanks.
What's your alla OS? Have you tried checking the option to allow Windows to find drivers from 'other sources'?
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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#6 Post by T3f4l » Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:49 am

With those descriptions it will be a modem
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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#7 Post by TPFanatic » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:19 pm

It's Intel Management Engine stuff. You can usually get it through Lenovo System Update.

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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#8 Post by ArtShapiro » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:10 am

RealBlackStuff wrote:This program might help: Unknown Device Identifier v9.01.
Has anyone gotten this (unfamiliar) program to work with Windows 10? On several Thinikpads and my desktop, it just comes up with an empty window and sits there.

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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#9 Post by RealBlackStuff » Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:56 am

According to the website W10 is supported.
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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#10 Post by ArtShapiro » Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:27 am

RealBlackStuff wrote:Tried running it as Admin?
I took another Thinkpad, my W500, and when installing as Admin and running as Admin it actually worked.

But for the two unknown devices: on the first one the query sent to Google exceeded Google's 32 character limit.

On the second one, repetitively, Google would show a page of hits and then immediately return to the empty Google home screen. I couldn't interrupt that process.

Oh well - sounded like a good idea but clearly the program needs some development work.

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Re: Devices With Unfound Drivers

#11 Post by rentspel » Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:10 pm

I must say that Unknown Device Identifier worked for me! Thank you for sharing.
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