Device driver not found what to do. Common driver errors and solutions. Installing the network driver

How to install drivers on Windows 7 forcibly.

This type of driver installation almost always helps in the case when the driver for the device is not installed by simply running the installation file setup, with extensions * .exe or * .msi.

But the main condition for the successful installation of the driver in this case is that the driver must be completely unpacked and the file with the extension * .inf should be available. Often, hardware manufacturers pack their drivers not only with standard ZIP archivers, but also using sophisticated proprietary software. Here, a program can be very useful for unpacking Universal Extractor that you can unpack almost any driver installer.

Consider how to force install a driver in Windows 7 using a webcam as an example Defender AV-W2035... There is a driver downloaded from the Internet AV-W2035_VISTA.zip which we successfully unpacked into the folder C: / AW-0350-MIC-VISTA... First, we need to view where the file with the extension is located. * .inf... To do this, in the properties Windows folders you need to enable the display of file extensions so that the names of the files are written with their extensions. Or use a very useful program Total commander or similar file manager... After looking through the folders (you can use the file search), we found the file snpstd2.inf

You should remember the entire path to this file, so that later it will be easier to find it in Explorer... We connect the camera to the computer, and wait for Windows to complete all its operations to determine the new hardware.

We open Device Manager (Start -> Control Panel -> Device Manager)

The device is immediately visible USB camera without installed drivers. Right-click on the camera and select the item in the context menu Update drivers ...

in the window that opens, click

and then select the button Further

A window with lists of equipment categories will open.
In order not to waste time and not rack your brains, just point to the first line Show all devices and press the button Further

In the next window, we will open a list of available drivers in the system (if any). But since we know that we have a folder with the driver, then without selecting anything from the list, we click on the button

Push the button Overview…

and using Explorer we are looking for our file with the extension * .inf, select it with the mouse and follow the button Open

and, of course, a button OK

Now our driver will appear in the window with the list of available drivers (if the driver is not suitable for the hardware, the system will generate an error).

Here you should pay attention to the check mark Compatible devices only... The fact is that if the connected equipment has not been tested for compatibility with installed version Windows, there is no driver for it, even though it may be working. Therefore, in some cases, this checkbox should be unchecked and the search for the driver should be repeated again.

So, after the file with the driver is found, select our driver in the list with the mouse and press the button Further

Driver installation starts

A Windows warning may appear stating that the driver being installed does not have digital signature or has not been tested for compatibility. If you are sure that the driver was taken from a reliable source and is precisely intended for the installed equipment, then you should not be afraid of such a warning, but you should agree to further install the driver. At the end of the installation, the system will display the completion window.

IN successful installation driver can be verified in Device manager, where the connected device will no longer have a question, and its name will change to the correct one created by the manufacturer. In our case with a camera, this will be a device that appears with the name USB PC Camera (SN9C103)

Installation is complete, you can safely start using your new equipment!

Connection problems pop up various devices to PC? Often in such cases, the status window is written: "The software for the device was not installed." This is a common phenomenon and there are many ways out of the situation, however, as well as reasons. Next, we'll take a look at how to deal with a failure, an eject message, or an unsuccessful installation attempt.

Cause

Often it comes about smartphones (Android, iPhone) and USB flash drives, Smart cards, but the problem also arises with other equipment, including hardware .. A lot of things lead to the appearance of such an inscription:

software conflict, lack of libraries and equipment firewood;
malfunction of the port, cord or connector of the device, malfunction of the iron.
lack of rights;
damage to the operating system, etc.

It is impossible to predict what is going on, so it is worth trying the methods until you can recreate an adequate connection.

Way out?

So, to begin with, let's conduct a traditional list of manipulations that should be done in the first place:

Let's now examine separately each case and popular remedies.

Refusal. This is a sign that certain software (antivirus, firewall, firewall) or OS does not allow firewood to be installed. Solution: find a blocker, install firewood under the admin account, fix damaged OS elements.
Could not find driver... This means that the firewood is not suitable, and the discrepancy arises from: mismatch of the bitness of the OS and the equipment. Solution: download firewood for the device from the site's office, update the motherboard firewood.
Device removed... Indicates that the device has been disconnected during installation - the installation of firewood is interrupted. The reason, in addition to disabling the gadget by the user, are: wear cord or connectors, damage port, malfunction motherboards... Solution: using another USB, checking the functionality on another PC, hardware diagnostics.

The device is removed - indicates a bad connection

The above methods often help the user out, but what if they didn’t help?

What else can you try?

Remove dust from your PC or laptop. It can cause overheating and interfere with normal operation.
Disable other connected gadgets. If the power of the power supply is not enough for the functioning of the devices, then for obvious reasons the equipment can be detected by the system, but installing firewood or using it as a storage device will be impossible.
If we are talking about hardware, for example, a GPU, then you can try to reconnect it.
In some cases, the problem lies not even in the operating system and firewood, but in Bios... You can try updating it.
Refresh Windows Media Player ... The library is being updated together with it. MTP Device Driver- protocol for transferring multimedia files. Here is a video tutorial:

Conclusion

Even if this did not help solve "The software for the device was not installed", we recommend that you contact the support service of the device manufacturer. With the help of a support, you will quickly understand the nuances of your situation. As a rule, technical support employees provide the software necessary for testing, which finds blocking processes or services.

I have three questions for the site administrator: How to install a sound driver? Second question: Where can I download Realtek dispatcher ? Third question: (there is a separate article) on the system unit? All this I had and worked before reinstalling the system. A few days ago Windows 7 had to be reinstalled and now there is no sound, the realtek manager is gone and the front soundbar does not work. I can't find the driver CD. You can, of course, call the master, but the prices are expensive, and I study at school, and I want to figure it out myself, because I managed to install the operating system on my own. Edik.

Letter No. 2. I have a problem: I reinstalled the operating system and immediately the question arose how to install a driver for sound, all other devices operating system Windows 7 found and the drivers were installed automatically, this can be seen in the device manager, but instead of my sound device, it was written Audio device on the High bus Definition Audio that's all. According to your article, I determined - The device instance code (hardware ID) went to www.devid.info, inserted it into the search field

HDAUDIO \ FUNC_01 & VEN_10EC & DEV_0883 & SUBSYS_1043829F & REV_1000 and clicked Search, after a few seconds the following result was received:

Realtek High Definition Audio
Vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

Operating system: Windows XP, Vista

I decided to call the wizard anyway and he very simply installed a driver for me to sound from his disk, but the Realtek manager did not appear for me and we could not turn on the front soundbar with it, although it worked before reinstalling the system and I connected it to it headphones. Tell me how to do everything right, you are also a master. Ilya.

How to install a sound driver

Note: Friends, in general there is a rule, immediately after installing the operating system, go to your website motherboard and download all the drivers (sound, network, and so on) from there, we even have a detailed article on this topic. If for some reason you did not succeed, you can download the sound driver directly from the manufacturer's website of the sound card built into your motherboard, in most cases, it will be a Realtek sound card, that is, we read everything that is written below.

We take a computer with the same Realtek sound card integrated (built-in) into the motherboard in the form of a microcircuit as our reader and with a newly installed operating system and Windows 7 without sound drivers (I deliberately did not install the driver on sound device, we will install with you).
In the device manager, I have an item Sound, video and game devices and under it there is a Device with High Definition Audio support, indicating that the system contains a new generation audio device that supports the HD Audio standard, but there is no sound in the system, since on this device driver is not installed.

Note: On older motherboards, instead of High Definition Audio, there may be AC'97 - an outdated standard audio codec developed by Intel in 1997. But the sound subsystem built into our motherboard works according to a newer standard - High Definition Audio or HD Audio. Intel High Definition Audio is a relatively new specification for audio codecs developed by Intel in 2004 with improved quality digital sound, an increased number of channels, a higher bandwidth compared to AC "97.

We determine the exact name of our sound card and which driver we need exactly.
We find the driver on the official website of our sound card, download it and install, if it is a realtek sound card driver, together with official driver necessarily the realtek dispatcher will be installed(you don't need to download it separately).
In order for the front soundbar to work, we have to configure realtek dispatcher, it is not difficult and in most cases is sufficient for the front soundbar to function properly. If we fail, we will have to enter the BIOS and set the Front Panel Type parameter - from HD Audio to AC-97 (more details below).

During the existence of the site, question How to install the driver for sound, was asked to me an uncountable number of times, in addition, before writing an article, I specifically observed how a simple user searches for drivers on the Internet and came to the conclusion. People want to find drivers anywhere, but not on the official website of the device manufacturer. Why is this happening?

If the situation is, for example, with drivers for a video card, then it is relatively simple here, everyone knows about the existence of a Russian-language site, where everything is very simple and understandable and even has its own program, by running which you can easily find out the exact name of your video card and select the required driver there. ... Naturally, on such a site, it is not difficult for a simple user to download the required driver, this is undoubtedly a big plus for the creators of this site.

The situation is different with sound drivers, although there are also only a few major manufacturers here and the most important one in my opinion is Realtek, personally, I most often have to deal with finding and installing drivers from this particular manufacturer. Indeed, the site www.realtek.com periodically freezes, does not have support for the Russian language, but you can still download drivers from it, personally, I have always succeeded.

Of course, first of all you need to know the name of your sound card. To accurately determine the name of almost any device connected to the motherboard, including built-in and discrete sound cards, you can use a simple but nevertheless irreplaceable (for example, in my work) program called AIDA64 or you can use the exact same utility Everest ...

More exotic methods for determining the name of devices and searching for drivers for them by the hardware ID code, using the site pcidatabase.com and www.devid.info, are given in our article. How to find a driver by device code(link to the article above), we will not repeat ourselves, if everything that is written below does not help, you can read it.

So we go to the official website of the AIDA64 program, being free in the recent past, it recently became paid, but you don't need to buy it right away. For the first 30 days, the developer gives us the opportunity to use the program without any restrictions. It seems to me that this time is more than enough for us to determine the name of the device we need. If you like the program, then of course you can buy it.
On the official website of our program http://www.aida64.com/ click on the Download button,

You can download the program in the installer or in the archive, let's download it in the archive, click on AIDA64 Extreme Edition Trial version, ZIP package, Download.

Downloaded, now unzip our program into some folder,

go to this folder, then run the aida64.exe file and our program starts

In the main window of the program, click Computer,

then Summary Information

and we see everything that we have installed inside system unit: the name of the motherboard and its chipset, as well as the name of the processor, video adapter, BIOS type, and so on.

The sound card as you can see - Realtek ALC883 High Definition Audio.

Half of the work is done, we go to the official website of Realtek - www.realtek.com. Many users complain that the Realtek website does not support the Russian language, you can get out of the situation by using google browser Chrome, it can easily translate everything for you.

Click Downloads

and choose High Definition Audio Codecs (Software)

Check the box I accept to the above and click Next

Why did I choose High Definition Audio Codecs (Software) drivers. Because the data is sound Realtek drivers are universal in their own way. They support all new audio formats and fit almost all Realtek High Definition Audio sound cards and ours too (highlighted in red). These drivers are intended for operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7/8 32-64bit.

1. Vista / Windows 7 WHQL support: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC886, ALC887, ALC888, ALC889, ALC892, ALC899, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC670, ALC680 ALC260, ALC2668 ALC270, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275
2. Support for Windows 2000 / XP WHQL: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC886, ALC887, ALC888, ALC889, ALC892, ALC899, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC2670 ALC268, ALC269, ALC270, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275

In this window, we need to select the installer version sound driver for download, if we have one of the listed 32-bit operating systems installed: Vista, Windows7, Windows 8, then click on the first Description (description) of the table
If we have one of the 64-bit systems installed - Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, then click on the second Description (description) of the table.
Accordingly, if you have 32-bit Windows 2000, Windows XP / 2003 (32/64 bits) installed, then select the seventh position.

We chose our version of the operating system, for example, we have Windows 7-64-bit installed, now we select the Site from which we will download, you can select any, for example, located in China and click on it with the left mouse once.

Download the driver and run it.

The drivers are being installed into the operating system,

and the Realtek manager is installed along with the drivers. After restarting the computer, we will have sound in Windows.

In the device manager, we see the version of our driver, it is the latest.

Read our next article -. Very convenient, I recommend!

One of the problems that a user may encounter after reinstalling Windows is the lack of a driver for network adapter(network driver) for wired or.

And if you don't have a disk with drivers at hand, you will have to look for a driver and download it using another device that has an Internet connection.

In this article, we will look at an algorithm that will allow you to avoid the troubles that may arise after installing the OS.

What is a driver?

This is a program through which the computer's operating system communicates with the device's hardware ( motherboard, video card, network card, printer, scanner, MFP, etc.).

Drivers are developed by companies that make computer parts and peripherals that interact with a PC (for example, office equipment).

Often, modern operating systems (including and) already have a certain set of drivers that allow you to work with the main components of a computer, we will consider the case when such programs are not available.

The peculiarity of the situation when the network driver is not installed is that it is not possible to use programs to automatically install the drivers, since they all use the Internet connection for their work, and since the network driver is not installed, there is no access to the Internet.

The user usually encounters the installation of network adapter drivers in the following cases:

1. After purchasing a new computer and no OS installed on it.

3. After a failure of the network adapter drivers.

To solve the problems that arise in the first case, you need to look for the disks that come with your computer.

In the past few years, a clear trend has emerged that involves the abandonment of the use of drives. optical discs not only among laptop manufacturers, but also among desktop PCs.

Users who independently choose the components from which their computer will be assembled also refuse to install a DVD drive.

Advice! We recommend to download all required drivers(and not just network) to a separate directory on your hard drive and / or flash drive. This will avoid situations when, after installing the operating system, you will need to look for a drive or PC (tablet, phone) to download drivers from a disk or the Internet.

Installing the network driver

By downloading the necessary program, you can start installing it.

Similar actions will take place in the case of an update. network driver.

To install / update the network adapter driver, you need to go to the "Device Manager" as it was described earlier.

Select the required item and in the context menu, which is available by clicking the right mouse button, select the item "Update drivers ...".

Select "Search for drivers on this computer."

Go to the directory into which we recently downloaded everything we need, using the "Browse" button, click "Next" and wait for the end of the driver installation process.

There is also an opinion that if you update (reinstall) the network driver, you must first remove the old one, and then install the new one.

Important! To delete already installed driver you need to go to the "Device Manager", select the network adapter, right-click and select "Delete" in the context menu. After that, the system will warn you that the device driver will be removed, we agree by clicking "OK".

Driver Updater by Carambis

If you have a need to search for universal programs that are able to function on different OS: I mean utilities for creating group policies, programs for cleaning the system from viruses and, of course, software for working with OS drivers - best solution will use Carambis programs Driver Updater.

With Driver Updater, you can not only get the software you need, but also save a lot of money.

After all, one purchase of a subscription allows you to connect two computers at once.

As for the process of work, the utility does an excellent job with the tasks.

Now there is no need to fix errors of connected hardware components on each computer.

Customization automatic search and installing updates now automatically updates all devices.

But, if you need to speed up your computer, we recommend using another utility from the same manufacturer -.

Its capabilities:

Comprehensive optimization of the operating system;
The ability to remove components and temporary files that are no longer used and are not needed for the OS to work;
Removal of all OS error reports;
Fast registry cleaning;
The ability to delete files that the user chooses;
Deleting installed programs in the main window of the program with a few clicks.

Remember, files that have been deleted by the program can no longer be recovered (unlike the usual deletion procedure using built-in OS functions).

Run diagnostics on your computer several times a month to keep your system running smoothly.

How to Install a Network Adapter Driver Without Internet Access

Network adapter driver - detailed instructions on installation

I think we've all come across a situation where the driver does not want to be installed. This article will discuss why the drivers are not installed. The article is an overview, but, nevertheless, it may be able to help you in some cases. If you have a problem installing the driver for Nvidia graphics cards , then here is a specific article for you: "". By the way, if you have a laptop, then before installing the Nvidia driver, you may need to install the Intel driver first.

To begin with, any operating system is impossible without drivers. All devices - keyboard, mouse, HDD, DVD, etc. communicate with the system through drivers. Even if the system does not ask for them, this does not mean that the device does not need them to work in your computer or laptop.

In Windows 7 and 8 (after XP), drivers were added to installation package systems. On the one hand, this is not bad - there is no need to surf the Internet and look for the necessary drivers. But on the other hand, this approach has greatly reduced the computer literacy of users and, in addition, drivers from the hardware manufacturer are much more preferable. provide more flexible customization, and therefore better job computer and device. As a result, we got a simpler installation, but we forgot that you can install one or another driver yourself.

The above does not apply to those people who worked in Windows XP and also those who found Windows 2000 (oh, it was a cool system at the time). When Windows XP came out, I was tearing down Windows 2000 with a scratch of my heart.

Everyone needs to know the driver installation procedure! Indeed, when working with a computer, different situations that need to be solved sometimes manually. And in order to understand what you are doing, you need to know a little about the process and then you will succeed.

I must say right away that with automatic installation drivers, sometimes the wrong drivers are installed that are needed for your device, for example - drivers from a video card. Therefore, before installing the drivers, you must know the model of your device, and then proceed with the installation.

I talked about what a driver is and how to install them in the article: "". Here I described several ways to install drivers, so this information can be very helpful to you.

What system do you have installed

Before installing drivers, you need to clarify what bit depth in your operating system. The article "" will help you with this. Also, when downloading drivers, you should know what Windows you have installed. I mean the version. If you need to install a driver for Windows 7, then you must download the driver for that particular system.

Sometimes, this is not required, as in installation file there are all the necessary drivers for different versions systems. But to be sure it's better to download it for your system.

And do not forget that you need to download drivers from official sites, as on the resources where are collected different drivers, may make a mistake, for example, make a typo in the Windows version. And then you will install a driver that is incompatible with your system. As you understand, the information from the original source will be more truthful. Although this is not always true.

To find out what operating system you have, you need to right-click on the computer and select "Properties".

A window will open from which you can learn Windows version and the bitness of the OS.

Now let me remind you of the points of the standard driver installation:

Find out the model of the device for which you want to install the driver;
You need to find out what operating system you have;
Go to the official website and download the driver specifying your OS;
Driver installation.

It seems to be simple actions, but it is precisely because of the wrong choice of driver that conflicts occur during installation.

Administrator rights

If you do not have permission to install, then of course you will not be able to install the driver, unless of course you know the administrator password. Sometimes users don't have drivers installed for this reason, so let's do the following.

Right-click on the downloaded driver and select "Run as administrator", then enter the administrator password.

After that, install the driver as usual.

Remove and reinstall drivers

You can try uninstalling the driver by standard means Windows, unless of course it is in the list of installed programs or use a third-party software to uninstall drivers.

If you have ever uninstalled a program, then it will not be difficult for you to uninstall the driver via Windows tools... Namely: go to "Start" - "Control Panel" - "Programs and Features". Next, a window will open in which you need to find the driver that you want to remove and uninstall.

But often the drivers are not on this list, and therefore you can use special utilities. You can also remove the driver manually, but for inexperienced users this procedure will seem difficult, although everything is very simple and logical. Now I will give an example of removing drivers through a program that is considered popular for this task. It's called Driver Sweeper.

Note: you can remove the driver under your account, but sometimes it doesn't work.

In order for you to navigate the program, you need to switch to Russian, since English is set by default. To do this, click in the left menu "Language" and select "Russian". To apply the changes, click the "Apply" button below.

Click Analyze and Clean to see which drivers you can uninstall. For example, I want to remove NVIDIA drivers... To do this, put a tick where I meet this word.

After specifying the driver, we have 2 choices: "Analysis" - when it is necessary to analyze and "Cleanup" - when it is necessary to delete. Let's show for clarity, I click "Analysis".

As you can see, the program has found: folders, files, as well as registry entries that relate to these drivers. After that you can click "Cleanup". In my opinion, "Analysis" is needed to check the program, for example, it can accidentally delete the wrong file and thereby disrupt the system. That is, after analyzing, you must go through the list and make sure that she chose required drivers for removing.

Click "OK".

Now you need to wait a while for the program to remove the drivers. After this procedure, the program will ask you to restart your computer, which you do.

This program is not updated, but it correctly removes the drivers. If you cannot remove the drivers through this utility, you can try Driver Fusion. You will figure it out quickly, as it works just like Driver Sweeper.

I'll tell you about manual removal of drivers another time, I think that the programs will cope with this task, and you will not have to poke around in Windows.

Inoperative device

Unfortunately, nothing is eternal and therefore the option when your device may fail should not be ruled out. In this case, the device can be disconnected from the computer or laptop and connected, for example, to another computer and checked for operability.

A story from experience. Once a friend approached me with a problem - the sound in the laptop did not work. That only I have not tried, but it was not possible to restore the sound on the laptop. The verdict was passed - the sound card was covered. Then I bought a new one sound card in the nearest computer store, connected it, installed the drivers and here it is our sound, which we have been waiting for. I think you understand that this part of the article should also be taken into account.

By the way, there are useful articles about sound: "" and "".

Windows problem

You can update Windows or try reinstalling Windows. I know that we all do not like this procedure, but we must look for a way out! And since Windows is very closely related to drivers and hardware, Windows can be a problematic part when drivers are not installed.

Attention! Be sure to use all the links I have given in this article. These articles will help you with your problem, and also you will learn the principle of installing drivers.