Thursday, July 29, 2010

Unknown Devices : A Tool That Helps to Solve The Problem Of Yellow Question Mark Shown In Device Manager

There are times when you upgrade the operating system on your computer or just did the fresh install of OS after a long time and then you realize that you don’t have the drivers for all the hardware connected to your computer like sound card, Ethernet card etc.

So, you see many devices like these in device manager unrecognized without any drivers. In such a case you can follow our tips on drivers like how to locate and download drivers for unrecognized devices, search for device drivers with hardware ids, update your drivers and how to backup or restore device drivers.


Today I will tell you about a free application called Unknown Devices which is used for the same purpose, it helps to find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are and then you can better lookout for its drivers. It does this by checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it.

It identify unknown devices not recognized by Windows in your system especially after you reinstall your system and cannot figure out what all those yellow question mark labeled devices really are.

It Help you search for workable drivers on the Internet. Driver backup is optional after you have all your device drivers installed.

By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, Unknown Devices attempts to figure out what the device is. You might not have to open your case or look up random numbers off of PCI cards to figure out what they are.

This program is portable in nature, so it does not require installation it can from CD, USB drive or placed in any folder of your computer. The program contains no adware, spyware, malware, popups, or whatever is the latest name for junk software.

Note: It works Win95, 98, 98se, Me, 2k, XP and 2003 but not for windows 7 now, if you are looking for tool like this for windows 7 then check out unknown device identifier.


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