How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

I installed Windows 7 on machine that was a couple of years old.  When it booted up, the max display resolution was 640x480 because of the old vga video driver that shipped with Windows 7.  I tried to find an updated driver from several places but ended up being saved by DriverMax.

DriverMax is a FREE application that helps identify unknown hardware and uploads the data to their site and provides downloads for updated drivers. 

Shortly after using this software I was back up and running at 1280x1024 (max for my monitor).

Brenton House

Published Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:33 AM by Brenton House
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# re: How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

So they haven't changed this? This has been a pain-point for many releases now... sux

Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:54 PM by peter

# re: How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

Sounds like you need to have an internet connection to make this work. What do you do if the network card is one of the missing drivers?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:22 PM by drew

# re: How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

Aftyer installing windows 7 64 Bit, my cardreader of my Dell E520 computer don't work anymore. I tried Dell, but they don't have a driver for this, because the computer was originally installed with Vista. Can you help?

Ruud Smit

rcmtsmit@casema.nl

Monday, November 23, 2009 2:38 AM by Ruud Smit

# re: How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

Look for Dell drivers for Vista 64bit.  Vista drivers will work with Win7.  32bit driver will not work with 64bit OS.

Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:49 PM by blah

# re: How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

I installed windows 7 one local drive is missing.How to get it.please can you help me.

sudheer.

sudheer2pv@yahoo.co.in

Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:20 PM by sudheer

# re: How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

I NEED DELL VOSTRO 1015 DRIVERS FOR WIN 7

Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:37 AM by OWAIS

# re: How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

Hey guys, I upgraded to windows 7 and now i'm missing a bunch of drivers on my laptop including the network controller device and I can't online...help would greatly appreciated..thanks! simsima39@yahoo.com

Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:30 PM by Sims