How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

Thursday, January 15, 2009

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

7 Comments

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

peter - Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:54:59 AM

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?

drew - Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:22:21 PM

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

Ruud Smit - Monday, November 23, 2009 1:38:30 AM

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

blah - Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:49:21 PM

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

sudheer.

sudheer2pv@yahoo.co.in

sudheer - Sunday, January 24, 2010 2:20:51 PM

I NEED DELL VOSTRO 1015 DRIVERS FOR WIN 7

OWAIS - Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:37:56 AM

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

Sims - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 7:30:59 PM

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