Driver Finding software

anish_sha · Mar 15, 2011

I have a sony vaio netbook which came pre installed with windows 7 starter , now i have formatted it and loaded windows xp.. i cant get the drivers for windows xp from sony's website.. i managed to install the intel graphics driver but sound and wireless are still not installed i am not able to find the model number of the both. in the device manager it just shows unknown device.. how to find it? any software?

CA50 · Mar 15, 2011

Whats the model no ?

anish_sha · Mar 15, 2011

CA50 said:
Whats the model no ?

VPCM126AG is the model number

iyengar · Mar 15, 2011

Get something like Lavalys.EVEREST software.. run it and you will know what exactly with model no and other things.. will make easy for you to search

eBro

CA50 · Mar 15, 2011

You can try this, but m not sure it will work or no
Driver Detective | Driver Update Software for Windows 7, Vista and XP

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iyengar said:
eBro

Offtopic, what do you mean by eBro???

anish_sha · Mar 15, 2011

installed all the drivers,, cant get the wireless adapter driver :-(... the network adapter is still a ? in yellow in device manager, everest is also not detecting it...

CA50 · Mar 15, 2011

do you know what is the vendor of your network adapter? you can try installing either drivers from realtek of broadcom, generally these vendors provide the network solution in laptops

tommy_vercetti · Mar 15, 2011

There is a different method for finding the driver, please go to Device Manager and then for the device displaying yellow mark, find the hardware ID for it and then you can google it or check in the Microsoft Catalog, let me know if you need more info.

anish_sha · Mar 15, 2011

tommy_vercetti said:
There is a different method for finding the driver, please go to Device Manager and then for the device displaying yellow mark, find the hardware ID for it and then you can google it or check in the Microsoft Catalog, let me know if you need more info.

pci\ven_168c&dev_002B this is id...

CA50 · Mar 15, 2011

try driver updater
Free Driver Update, Driver Download Software - Device Doctor

vivacious_tg · Mar 16, 2011

IMO you can identify your device using a small app unknown devices

sikvik · Mar 16, 2011

Here you go and a tutorial from Tim, co-owner of MajorGeeks.

SlimDrivers - MajorGeeks Support Forums

Cheers..

c2quado · Mar 16, 2011

try this http://www.3dpchip.com/

this software first install drivers for your network then you can search other drivers online with its help.

but I have'nt yet tested it.so dont know whether it works or not.

panky.killer · Mar 16, 2011

Hey dude its simple to find ur driver
some steps to follow for ur driver
1.go to win 7 driver on same model no on its website c what its chip name v
and then google it around u will get driver for the same
u need name of chipset for ur wireless like broadcom or linksys so its on the name u can search u have to get name of win7 driver it will work like charm. or on the same vaio website u will find the driver go for some older model they will have same chip and it will have win xp driver