How to identify your CIF single chip web cam (and then find its driver!) Even if you’ve lost your web cam’s installation CD, all product info, and have no clue “who the heck” even manufactured it you can still identify it! Actually, to phrase it more accurately, "you can let Windows identify it"!!! Windows doesn’t need drivers to detect Plug and Play hardware (like a web cam) and determine its Device Identification strings This guide describes how to identify the Hardware IDs for a USB web cam, then try and find a driver that matches the Hardware ID. The driver must also be compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Note that older cams may not have drivers that work with newer versions of Windows. (For example, an older web cam may only have XP compatible drivers.) But you won't know unless you first try and look! Update: In addition to the manual search method described below, here's two FREE driver finder tools you can also try that may help find your driver. Connect your cam before you run the tool. Understanding Device Names => Windows provides user-friendly device names to accommodate us humans. As far as Windows is concerned, the device name is simply a comment! => It's those cryptic Device Identification strings that really identify a device ...==> If Windows finds NO device driver, your web cam may be named “Unknown” or "Other" device ...==> If Windows finds the WRONG device driver you may see your web cam with the WRONG device name How to find your web cam => While your web cam is connected, look through all of Device Manager for devices with a yellow icon (probably a yellow question mark) => Be certain to expand the USB category to check all devices listed under it. Also, be sure to also check if category Other Devices appears in Device Manager and look under it as well => Your web cam will appear as a device with a yellow icon (probably a question mark) => Click on the thumbnail below to see the full sized image How to verify the device you found is your web cam => Your web cam device will only appear in Device Manager when the web cam is powered on and connected => Disconnect your web cam. Verify the device you had found is no longer displayed in Device Manager 1) If you should find your driver elsewhere please update our "CIF Single Chip driver for webcam" thread and post your Hardware Id and the matching driver file info so others might also benefit on their next Search 2) as fyi...Vista let's you easily copy/paste your Hardware Ids. XP does not. However, you can use a handy tool called SysExporter - To grab text data from a window when Windows doesn't let you Getting free drivers from Driver Guide If your search happens to take you to the Driver Guide website, you can download the driver for free (you don't need to become a member) > Click the Download tab > Choose option: Download this file by viewing a series of ads then click Continue > For each ad, just click the No Thanks link (it will appear in lower right corner of each ad) to get to the download Hi, I tried finding the drivers through the above mentioned steps...but it didnt help me. The Hardware ID for my camera is USB\\VID_0553&PID_0100&REV_0000 and USB\\VID_0553&PID_0100 I have a USB Camera which has a sticker "WeP Innovate" Seems to be Wipro Web cam...but i am not very sure if WeP Innovate is Wipro product. I have been searching for the driver for this since last two weeks...and I just came across this website. Can someone please help me with this. This is a very old webcam with three legs and grey color ball with Green led. How to search for your webcam driver using its Hardware IDs HI! Glad to help... I found a driver for you (i list it below) and i'm providing an explanation for anyone reading of how i found the driver using your webcam's Hardware IDs After you find your webcam's Hardware IDs (as explained in the Guide) here's some steps to help search for a matching driver. In your case, Windows provided two Hardware IDs for your webcam device Windows lists Hardware IDs in order of "best driver match". So we prefer a driver matching the first ID but if we can't find one Windows tells us the 2nd ID should also work When i go searching for a driver to match an ID, I use both Google and Yahoo. I usually search with Google first. If not happy with the result, I try Yahoo as well. (I've found Yahoo sometimes provides some good hits that Google missed - and vice-versa) Search for the 1st ID => Try to Search for: USB\\VID_0553&PID_0100&REV_0000 But, in this case, neither Yahoo or Google find any matches Next, check if REV_xxxx is part of the ID. In your case, it is! REV is the device Revision Level. If the vendor produced slightly different versions of the device they'll assign each version its own Rev level It's sometimes best to drop REV from the search If your search now gets results, THEN see if REV is displayed in the results and use the rev level to help pick your driver But! look at the 2nd Hardware ID Windows listed. We see Windows doesn't really care what the REV level is. (No REV occurs in the 2nd ID Windows listed) Hi, Thanks a lot. I think this seems to be the driver. When I try to download it...its asking me to sign up and pay for the same. Do i need to pay for the download here? Regards Vinit Also wanted to thank you for guiding me through the process. This will indeed help me for all my future searches. Good work B00kWyrm! This one isn't easy to find for certain! (that's the only thing for certain!) You're also right the webcam is built using a Sonix device. And, like you, I also see evidence pointing to a Genius Webcam If I could find/see the driver's .inf installer file could check for certain but it's harder to know for certain when the .inf is embedded in setup files such that the .inf isn't visible. But i think your driver find if is an excellent guess and one to try Timothy Raj Which operating system are you using? You can 1. Try the Setup file B00kWyrm found if it matches your OS. See if and how well it works 2. I also found the Genius webcam site. From the title of B00kWyrm's driver and other evidence i found, i think it might be a Genius Look camera???? (Their Look model, not i-Look model) Anyway you can scroll through the site to find it and see the pic. (Multiple drivers by OS are also available) => Click for their home page => Click Support->Drivers->Drivers. Look down a bit to see the Webcam tab. Click it. => Now look at their webcams. In particular, scroll down and see the Look 317 (is just a guess). Checkout out all the Look models Let's us know if any of these hints help find it! Hi, I followed the mentioned steps above, and I successfully found my webcam driver! My webcam now is working! I want to thank a lot Spyder_1386, especially LookinAround for helping me on my webcam problem. I followed the mentioned steps given by LookinAround and I found my webcam's driver!Thank you very much!I don't know how to thank you for this. I want to thank Spyder_1386 for giving me the link of this thread. and LookinAround for the steps. I also want to thank all in TechSpot!This website is great!and you guys are great!Thank you very very very much! I posted a thread regarding my webcam problem, and thank god that Spyder_1386 replied and give me the link of this thread. I found out that my webcam's Hardware ID is USB/VID_0AC8&PID_307B7REV_0100 and USB/VID_0AC8&PID_307B. I used to search the first ID and it didn't match. then as LookinAround said that the 2nd ID works, it actually works! I found the driver of my webcam on google. (thanks LookinAround). Hope you guys can help more people with this webcam issue. If you guys only know how happy I am. because that webcam has sentimental value because its a gift from my childhood bestfriend. Thank you TechSpot for such a great help! From, PortalTreaf I'm not able to post links yet. I'm a newbie here. I need to post atleast 5 to post links. I'm quite busy right now. btw,thanks again! i'll be posting more here in TechSpot. then I'll put the link where i found my webcam's driver. thanks LookinAround, and thanks to TechSpot. Regards, PortalTreaf I have not yet found a driver for you. Maybe with this information you can continue the search. Report back if you find success (That way we won't keep looking) ... and where. Thanks --------------- -more information and questions... alcor micro support info Alcor Micro, Corp. is IC/Semiconductor company, and we only sell IC components to OEM manufacture customers. All warranty & support issues are provided directly to OEM/manufacturer customers of Alcor Micro. End users of products incorporating Alcor IC’s & components into a finished product with any support or technical questions about how to use the product should contact the Product mfg directly or the retail location where they bought the end product. Alcor Micro does not directly provide end-user/retail customer support. Hi alicarlos13 You're presenting a good challenge! Here's what i'd like to do in exploring a solution for you First, good work again B00kWyrm! This hardware ID does indeed indicate an Alcor Micro device inside the web cam Meaning Alcor is the chip vendor and enet (or enet360) is the company that actually built the webcam Note: That I did find a few enet or enet360 related websites but i'm not including the links as i;m suspicious of malware on the sites (one in english, two in, i think, chinese). I did (cautiously) look at the english site (as i can't read chinese) but didn't see anything of interest But I also noticed something curious about your hardware IDs. The MI_xx in the ID means it's a USB composite device (That's a USB device with multiple device interfaces). I'd like to double check and verify these IDs are indeed your webcam (and/or if any other Hardware and Device IDs are involved) because i'm not sure i've seen a USB web cam composite device before (tho maybe i'm just not remembering or maybe, in fact, your web cam happens to be a composite device). These steps will let me know for sure Could you please First, disconnect your webcam from the computer Then click Start->Run, enter: msinfo32. Click the + sign next to Components to expand it Click Problem Devices. Anything appear? If yes, click on it, Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy it, Ctrl-V to paste into next post Next, re-connect your webcam Be sure you first close msinfo32 from above steps! Then repeat all the steps to get a NEW (and refreshed) msinfo32 and what is reported this time (with webcam connected). Then copy/paste the items into your next post Once i can first double check the current ID data, i can explain how to also look for something called Compatible IDs which can also point us to driver solutions','url':'http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-identify-your-webcam-and-then-find-its-driver.123880/','og_descr':'How to identify your CIF single chip webcam (and then find its driver) How to identify your CIF single chip web cam (and then find its driver!)...
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