Which operating system are you using? You canġ. inf isn't visible.īut i think your driver find if is an excellent guess and one to try inf is embedded in setup files such that the. inf installer file could check for certain but it's harder to know for certain when the. And, like you, I also see evidence pointing to a Genius Webcam You're also right the webcam is built using a Sonix device. This one isn't easy to find for certain! (that's the only thing for certain!) Here's a link to a driver (but note it's designated for Windows 2000 or Windows XP) returned by the search. => So we now search for: VID_0553&PID_0100 And BINGO! (No REV occurs in the 2nd ID Windows listed) We see Windows doesn't really care what the REV level is.
Only install driver updates for devices that aren't working or you think need them.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" Don't install every driver update just because it finds one. Note these tools may also find driver updates for devices other then your webcam. Connect your cam before you run the tool.
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. (For example, an older web cam may only have XP compatible drivers.) But you won't know unless you first try and look!
Note that older cams may not have drivers that work with newer versions of Windows. The driver must also be compatible with the version of Windows you're running. 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. Windows Device Identification strings look rather cryptic (for example, USB\VID_093A&PID_2468\5&B114931&0&1) but these strings are fundamental to Windows Plug-and-Play and how Windows figures out which drivers work with what devices in the first place!