by Anonymous on August 18th, 2008

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I have a Dell Latitude 610 that has yellow question marks by several devices in the device manager how can I find out what hardware is installed?

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by Karl Plesz on August 21st, 2008
There's a great little utility called System Information for Windows (SIW) that does a decent job finding all the hardware installed in the computer. I'll link to it below.

Then the trick is to figure out which of the devices it finds are the ones with the question marks in device manager.

Once you make that determination, just install the drivers you need to solve the unknown devices issues and you're good to go. You should be able to find all the drivers you need for your laptop on Dell's site. It is even possible that they have a 'wizard' program that automatically detects and installs the drivers you need. More and more manufacturers are doing this now. Dell support is more than capable of helping you with this.
http://www.gtopala.com/
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by Clockwerk Beetle on August 21st, 2008
The ones with a yellow question mark are not installed.
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- Sorry, I gotta call you on this one. Yellow question mark next to a device means 'unknown device'. Usually the result of a missing driver. The device is installed. Having said that, I know that some folks describe devices with missing drivers as 'not installed'. Most people refer to 'not installed' as akin to 'not physically present'. Semantics, I know. But computer users are easily misled.
  
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- Well if you were talking about hardware, then yeah it's installed. But you were talking about software. So what I said fits just fine. But that's not really important. If it shows up in the device manager, it's physically installed.
  
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