Windows 10: PCI Device not installed, how do I fix this?

I noticed that my PCI Device was not installed, but when I tried downloading it Windows couldn't find it. I then downloaded the chipset from my manufacturer but it still couldn't be found. Maybe I didn't do it right or that wasn't the issue, but now I'm stumped. How can I fix this?

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List of PCI devices

Hi

My name is Lester and hopefully, this will help answer your question, there are many ways for us to check the PCI slots available on the PC, you may refer to the steps below:

Method 1.

Press Windows key + R then type in regedit then hit OK

Locate the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\

By that you can check PCI information.

Method 2.

Press Windows key + R then type in dxdiag then hit OK

On the bottom click Save all information

You may save it to your desktop or anywhere, once done open the saved information to notepad.

Look for System Devices and you will see the list of PCI, on notepad you may also search for PCI by pressing CTRL+ F then type in PCI to check.

Let me know how does it goes, and we have sets of troubleshooting steps here.

Lester

Independent Advisor

 

Missing pci simple comunication device driver with error code 28

Hi,

The PCI Simple Communications Controller is a generic device driver that handles peripheral devices attached to the computer. To resolve this issues, kindly refer to the questions below:

• Have you tried manually updating the driver for your graphics card?
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried?

You can also refer to this
Wiki Article by Andre Da Costa which shows a step by step guide in updating you device drivers.

We look forward to your response to our queries.

 

List of PCI devices

Dear Lester,

Thanks for your reply.

My question was, how to get list of PCIe devices from within KMDF.

For example Linux has an API to get a pci device pointer to a specific vendor ID using pci_get_device()

search.c - drivers/pci/search.c - Linux source code (v5.9.11) - Bootlin

Does Windows have an equivalent API?

Kind regards,

Pranav