Comments on: Finding drivers for unrecognized hardware in a Windows system

By: King Fisher

King Fisher — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:55:00 +0000

Better off to use a tool like DriverAgent. http://www.driveragent.com. My time is worth more than this. An improperly installed driver can totally screw up your system.

By: Jrad

Jrad — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:36:01 +0000

This is kind of a crap-shoot, works sometimes, sometimes not. Generally it seems to do better with older devices.

By: cryptonyt3

cryptonyt3 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:45:19 +0000

I use this on my notebook and desktop. I’ve had my notebook for 6 yrs now and this id the best I came across. Hope things work out. Your going to have to pay for the software. DRIVER ROBOT

By: Mats Hellman

Mats Hellman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:18:26 +0000

yeswings: I’m sorry but I really don’t understand what you mean.

By: yeswings

yeswings — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:42:26 +0000

what do you think are the best software choices for hardware ID

By: Mats Hellman

Mats Hellman — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:15:00 +0000

Usually the drivers from the hardware vendor works best. At least in my case. But there are drivers that you have to get from the device manufacturer, graphic cards for example. I can’t install a stock nVidia/Ati driver on most laptops.
I’ve installed many drivers at once and never had any problems but I guess if you want to be safe install one and if it wants to reboot, you reboot.
Lenovo supplies a nice way of updating/installing drivers called Thinkvantage but I read somewhere they are about to put it down which makes me sad. Thinkvantage is one of the things that keeps me getting IBM/Lenovo devices.

Those free drivers sites you talk about have never really helped me out. The best way is still looking at the hardware in you computer and getting Intel drivers from Intel, nVidia from nVidia and so on.

If you can’t sort out the hardware there are programs that do it for you.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:25:15 +0000

Hay there, thanks for the advice. I purchased an old dell desktop, that works fairly well, or so I thought. I used a program to see if all my drivers were current, alas about twenty were behind the current curve. Most of what I learn is by trial and error. I’ve tried to download updates from some companies, with variable success. Do you have any advice when downloading updates to drivers? i.e. one at a time, several at a time, (from the same manuf. same type of device) etc. Some of the “free download drivers” websites are almost totally worthless. I prefer to go to the source.
Thanks,
Dennis