Unknown Device in Device Manager

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I just did a clean install of XP Home in a friends PC which has an Asus P4S800 mobo and a via firewire card. I'm assuming that one of the 2 'unknown device' exclamations that I'm finding in device manager is referring to this. He didn't get any discs with the card as it came installed and I'm at a loss to find them anywhere. I can't get windows to find it either so I'm not sure what to do.
Any ideas what to do or how to determine for certain what these 'Unknown Device' listings refer to?
 
you can go to the asus website and download any drivers available for your motherboard and install them.
 
I did but I can't find any firewire drivers on the asus page and there's nothing on the disc it came with.
 
Or look at the PNPID and then from there figure out what device it is. (Google is your friend)
 
I'm stoopid. Turns out it was just the video card drivers which needed to be updated to enable dual monitors. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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