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Missing Drivers
A missing driver is one of the first
things to check for if added hardware won’t work. For example,
if we try to use the mainboard’s built-in networking to connect
to another PC in our home, it won’t work. It’s not that the
built-in hardware for networking doesn’t work. Examining Device
Manager...Other Devices...Ethernet Controller, we see that no driver
has been installed (Figure 156).
The key expressions telling us something is missing are “Unknown”
and “Not Available.” Things should be known and available
to our PC! Question marks next to devices in Device Manager aren’t
good either! When in doubt whether a driver is installed, right click
on the device in Device Manager to see the driver information.
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