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Oni

Oni

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My boss told me to find some drivers for it if I could. Well, it's a damned mission now! I will find drivers for this thing if it freaking KILLS me!

Has anybody ever come across this thing? The only potentially identifying thing on it is a sticker on the back that reads:

USB PC Camera
M/N: LCD CMOS
(CE and FCC Logos)
P6100000032
PPM5167 Made in China
Click to expand...

I've searched everything on that in hundreds of different combinations and got nothing. Hell, I even opened the damn thing up, hoping there was an identifying mark on the PCB or one of the chips inside, but got el zilcho.

Little help?
 
looks like a laptop webcam, do you know where he got it from or if it came free with a laptop?
 
Assuming you can't read and write Chinese, try looking it up here, they have a comprehensive English based site. However, when you find it there, you are going to need to find someone who can read and write Chinese, as only the large OEMs have English speakers answering emails.
 
Gather 'round kiddies, story time.
Reminds me of when I interned at a pc repair shop. Half the time I reinstalled windows, and before I did I would look in the hardware manager to see if there was any special type thing that I needed to install. But every now and then I would come across something that was just labeled "generic" so I would have to open the case to see if the thing had a name or something.

Back on topic. Oni, did you check the microsoft update site? sometimes they have drivers when you run the windows update scan.
 
There is an SDK for creating usb drivers, I can't for the life of me remember what its called, but it has the ability to recognise popular usb chips, (ie the chip in the camera that talks to the pc) have a chat and throw up some info It helped when I wanted a driver for a usb parallel port cable I got a-hold of.
 
Subscribed, if people on OCF can't find it. I don't know what to believe in.
 
I had to take it into work today, as we'll be using it with our software for the Jewellery World Expo. My boss said he has a driver disc, but something tells me he lost it a long time ago.

I'll keep looking. Thanks guys!
 
I think I found it on TigerDirect.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1530621&CatId=130

The pics show the other side of the clip/base, but it sure looks like it.

I got a clue, now I'm off to find drivers if I can.

*edit*
Holy Crud man! It seams as if this PowerUp company was swallowed by the NSA.
Probably one of the many products completely relabeled on it's way through Hong Kong.
You might have to resort to buying another one for $10 USD just to get a freaking CD with drivers!
Copy the CD for the boss, so you get your brownie points and a web cam to play with...no one will know, and I won't tell.

Oh, almost forgot...the TigerDirect.ca link too, seeing as that's probably closer....:rolleyes:
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1530621&sku=TC3G-3004
 
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Diggrr, you might be interested to know that I showed that link to my boss, and he went and ordered 15 of them to give to our clients :)

Those things work better with our software than the $40 Creative cameras. The Creative drivers kept crashing our software, but these cheapie ones don't. How weird is that?!
 
Hah, that is funny he ordered so many, but I guess they make a cheap gift. Nicer than the branded ink pens that I kept getting when building the pharmacies networks.
Who'd have thought Viagra needed such a big pen to get their hint across. ;)

I've found that for video, the generic/cheapo devices work better with "other" softwares. They don't tend to think that they should take priority over all the computer's other functions like the brand-name stuff does....a "world revolves around me" complex, I guess.
Creative is bad at this. I have 2 sound cards I don't even try to use anymore just because of the grief saved using the on-board.

Guess that solves the hunt for the driver problem :thup:
Get your brownie points?
 
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