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3 Ways to Find a Completely Sure Driver

Maybe you have experienced on re-install laptop or computer looks so ugly and big. This happens because there is no driver installed on your laptop. Drivers are something that is very important and must exist in a laptop or computer. Many ways to get it, one of them is with a laptop CD or by downloading on the internet. The usual problem is not finding a suitable driver or compatible with our laptop. Is there any other way to search for a driver that is not already installed?

Of course there is a way. Do not worry, here I will describe how to easily find a driver that is definitely compatible. The steps are:

Using site http:www.devid.info


1. Open Windows Explorer + right-click My Computer, choose device manager. Dialog box will appear as shown below.

2. In the picture above, if any uninstalled driver is marked with a yellow exclamation mark. Then right click on the driver, select properties. Next select the detail tab, change the property into hardware ids.

How to Find a Completely Sure Driver Computer or Laptop

3 Copy the top most value by right clicks then copy (PCI \ VEN_8086 & DEV_0A06 & SUBSYS_07621025 & REV_0B) and then paste to the site http://www.devid.info/ if the driver is not found try using another value.

How to Find a Completely Sure Driver Computer or Laptop

4 Click on the driver then select on Original file: devid-driver-207858.7z (110 Mb)

How to Find a Completely Sure Driver Computer or Laptop

Download from the official website of the laptop brand


For example my laptop brand is ACER then I will visit Acer official address at http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers and then please search your laptop specifications. For example my laptop Acer aspire E1 432.

Using third party applications


This third way I do not guarantee that the driver you are looking for will always be compatible but there are some apps I recommend, regarding the ability to detect and locate a computer driver.

1 3DP_CHIP: This is what I recommend
2 Driver pack solution

The software is open source please search on Google :)
That's 3 Ways to Find Drivers That Are Definitely Compatible and suitable for computers. May be useful.
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