{"id":279,"date":"2010-03-14T01:22:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T06:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-05-16T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T13:59:53","slug":"find-and-identify-device-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Find and Identify Device ID&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you help fix people&#8217;s computers you will come across devices that windows will not have drivers for or you may be having problems downloading them from the machine manufacturer site, here is a quick way to go about it.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <strong>Device Manager<\/strong> right click on unrecognised device there will be an exclamation mark on it click <strong>Properties<\/strong> -&gt;<strong>Details<\/strong> and select <strong>Hardwae ID&#8217;s<\/strong> from the property drop down list. <strong>VID_<\/strong> and <strong>VEN_<\/strong> are used to identify vendors and <strong>PID_<\/strong> and <strong>DEV_<\/strong> identify Product ID. The HEX value following Product ID &#8220;PID_\/DEV_&#8221; or Vendor ID &#8220;VID_\/VEN_&#8221; is what you use in your search to identify the device.<\/p>\n<p>Now go to <a title=\"PCI Vendor &amp; Device list\" href=\"http:\/\/pcidatabase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pcidatabase.com<\/a> enter your product or vendor id to such for your device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you help fix people&#8217;s computers you will come across devices that windows will not have drivers for or you may be having problems downloading them from the machine manufacturer site, here is a quick way to go about it. Go to Device Manager right click on unrecognised device there will be an exclamation mark &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Find and Identify Device ID&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,99],"tags":[107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}