July 3rd, 2010 All hardware equipment uses an identifier to uniquely identify itself. This allows operating systems to recognize them and install the necessary software for them. In Windows this generally means that a device driver for the hardware is installed.

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The hardware identifier is a combination of the bus type, the hardware manufacturer (or vendor) and the device identifier. In some cases additional sub-system identifiers and revision information is included to distinguish between variations of a device. So when you are looking for a device driver for a piece of hardware, it is useful to know the hardware id of the device. This can tell you which manufacturer made the device and help you find a device driver.

The Windows Device Manager The hardware id for a device in Windows can be found in the Windows Device Manager. To check the hardware id for a device, follow these steps:.

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Open the Device Manager from the Control Panel. You can also type “devmgmt.msc” at the Run option in the Start menu.

In the Device Manager, right-click the device, and select Properties in the popup menu. Next, select the Details tab. Now select the Hardware Ids in the dropdown list. As you can see in the screen shot, there can be multiple hardware ids for a device. The top one is the most specific identifier, and going down, the identifiers are more generic.

The reason this is done is to allow a device driver to be selected based on a match to any of these hardware identifiers. The hardware manufacturer in this example is Realtek, which is identified by VEN10EC. Obviously this is a device for which a driver is installed already, and the manufacturer and model for the device are shown, but the hardware id is also available for unknown devices and not recognized devices. Programs use the hardware id and the compatible id to find a matching driver for a device as well.

Entry Filed under. 303 Comments. 1. Syed kareem April 30th, 2013 at 4:53 pm i want the netwrok controller driver for the given hardware id. Please mail me the link or else commont soon.

Please i can’t access the net vPCI VEN14E4&DEV4727&SUBSYS1483103C&REV01 PCI VEN14E4&DEV4727&SUBSYS1483103C PCI VEN14E4&DEV4727&CC028000 PCI VEN14E4&DEV4727&CC0280. 2.

May 1st, 2013 at 1:16 am @syed kareem – That’s a Broadcom 4313 802.11b/g/n wireless device. Which driver you will need partly depends on your Windows version. An example of a compatible driver is the.

AMBROSE May 11th, 2013 at 5:39 am please which driver can i use for hp probook 4530s id PCI VEN10EC&DEV8176&SUBSYS1629103C&REV01 PCI VEN10EC&DEV8176&SUBSYS1629103C PCI VEN10EC&DEV8176&CC028000 PCI VEN10EC&DEV8176&CC0280 please help and send me link4. 4. June 2nd, 2013 at 3:29 pm @AMBROSE – Your hardware ID is for a Realtek network driver. You can use the download from the Realtek download site for the 8192ce chipset. Or try the download from the for your laptop. You need to still pick your Windows version in that link.

Pasc June 5th, 2013 at 4:55 pm I need help with network controller drivers for card of the following device id: PCI VEN8086&DEV0887&SUBSYS40628086&REVC4 PCI VEN8086&DEV0887&SUBSYS40628086 PCI VEN8086&DEV0887&CC028000 PCI VEN8086&DEV0887&CC0280. 6. June 6th, 2013 at 2:25 pm @pasc – That device ID is for an Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2230 device. So you will need to download and install the Intel wireless device driver for that. If you let me know what Windows version you are running, I can point you to a download link. Moslem June 16th, 2013 at 11:05 pm hi i can’t find driver for hp fingerprints, please send download link USB VID138A&PID0005&REV0.

. (updated to support UNICODE) Introduction Many desktop application developers need to uniquely identify the computer in which their software is running on. Such identification must produce a unique data element which will be different per each computer and will reproduce the same ID on any given computer. The WMI set of classes Windows provides a set of classes that can be used for most hardware enumeration and identification tasks, which is named WMI or Windows Management Instrumentation.

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These are extensions to the Windows Driver Model (WDM). WMI provides per instrumented component static information and dynamic notification about any changes. Most programming languages can be used to manage, locally and remotely, computers and servers, enumerating their instrumented components and alerted for changes that occur. During my research, I came to the conclusion that if speed and reliability is important, it is better to access hardware via the Win32 API and not use WMI. I have experienced many delays and in some occasions, WMI failed to detect an element such as the CPU ID. This article focuses on the direct approach for obtaining this data without using WMI.

Obtaining a unique CPU ID The solution that seems to be the best choice is to sample the CPU unique identification number (or CPU ID). However, there are several problems that makes it impossible to rely on reading the CPU ID. To begin with, most CPUs with the exception of the old Pentium III, don't have a unique CPU Serial Number. Intel has removed this feature for privacy reasons.

It is still possible to generate a unique ID from the motherboard as a whole. That certainly works but the huge number of different types of motherboards and manufacturers makes it next to impossible to generate a unique ID that will cover all of them. In fact, a French company named CPU ID, focuses in this field and spends a lot of resources in getting to learn each type of motherboard and CPU, in order to cover them all. The following screenshot shows the details that can be collected per each machine. Their SDK can be downloaded, and can be used both as a static library (per special request) or a DLL with any application developed. The bad news is that even the guys from CPUID say it is impossible to generate a unique hardware ID based on the CPU or the motherboard of a given machine.

MAC address based hardware ID The next choice for obtaining such a unique ID would be sampling the MAC address. To begin with, what is the 'MAC address'? It stands for Media Access Control.

The MAC address is 48 bits long (6 bytes). The GetMACAddress code sample explains how to obtain the MAC address. However, there is one problem with this approach: the MAC address can be easily changed into a new one. Hard Drive serial number It seems that the only reliable solution for obtaining a machine ID would be using the serial number of the main Hard Drive. The second example, GetHDSerialNumber, shows how to obtain this ID.

From my experience, this approach is the best one and the most reliable for generating a unique machine based hardware ID. I would like to add that the serial number to be used, must be the one set by the manufacturer as opposed to the one set (and which can be changed) by the Operating System. SkySniper 28-Aug-15 4:54 28-Aug-15 4:54 In diskid32.cpp code: flipAndCodeBytes (localbuffer,descrip - SerialNumberOffset, 1, serialNumber ); In your code: flipAndCodeBytes ( descrip - SerialNumberOffset, 0, cszBuffer, cszSerialNumber ); As will correct, and why?

On my hardware on Windows 10, parameter flip=0 - correct, it gives the same value ('6VX040NV') all methods. Parameter flip=1 gives ('V60X04VN') in ReadPhysicalDriveInNTWithZeroRights. But on same hardware on Windows 7, parameter flip=1 - correct, it gives the same value ('6VX040NV') all methods. Parameter flip=0 gives ('V60X04VN') in ReadPhysicalDriveInNTWithZeroRights. Gernot Frisch 2-Feb-15 6:32 2-Feb-15 6:32 You can use a hardware dongle (CodeMeter e.g.) USB stick and use that for computer identification, which leaves the possibility to transfer the license of your software easily to another computer.

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Getting hardware component numbers is a problem, if the component gets replaced. The MAC address is a bad idea! Sometimes MAC addresses are hidden if a WIFI card is disabled or such.

The disk serial can be read by any user (DIR C and is used by many other programs as well. Be aware, that cloning a disk image also clones the disk serial. Plus: It's easy to change them (but will likely break other software that relies on that). A good idea might be to just write a hidden file or regitsry entry at the first program run, using a long random number (include time, random, and some hardware strings). Mike Nordell 1-Feb-15 13:05 1-Feb-15 13:05 While HD serial can on real hardware be reliable, do note that different invocations of Windows on the same hardware might renumber the disks, so HardDisk0 switches place with 1, or if controller is disabled from BIOS (unfortunately sometimes required in multiboot scenarios) you are still getting false negatives - the software is still running on the same physical machine, only under a different partial hardware configuration.

That's without going into virtual machines, where you can run hundreds of VM's all exposing the exact same hardware. The only 'reliable' 'Machine Identification' I can come to think of would be (the 'Security By Obscurity') TPM, but thankfully not too many motherboards uses that. A simpler option, if this 'Machine Identification' doesn't have to survive reboots, is to simply generate a GUID and use that.

Perhaps what you're looking for isn't a unique 'Machine Identification' at all, but a unique Windows Installation 'fingerprint'/ID or something similar? Dandy72 28-Jan-15 13:14 28-Jan-15 13:14 I'm not buying the 'WMI is slow' argument entirely. Yes, WMI is a pig, but you're not going to be extracting data out of it in a tight loop-you read what you need once and you're done. Even though you chose to ignore it, would you care to share what unique data points you've found when investigating it? As for hard drives-have you determined how unique the serial number is if you're using virtual machines that have been built using the same disk image file as a starting point?

Cracked-Down 28-Jan-15 8:12 28-Jan-15 8:12 Mike, Very nice compiled article. I have few suggestion though, I will first go through the problems that you might face & then with its best possible solution 1. CPU ID (If used alone) Problem: CPU h/w changed - Though, will happen rarely, but will mess-up the chances of getting unique id 2. Mother board ID Problem: H/w Change & complexity involved - Difficult to locate reliable unique ID from no. Of chips available on mother board.

If you could spend that much of time and would able to retrieve it, then it could be reliable. But I never tried doing that as chances of success are very low 3. Hard drive ID - Very reliable but can't be accessed by every windows user profile Problem: User authentication/profile - For few of the Operating systems, users with non-admin rights can't retrieve the Hard drive id. MAC ID - most reliable except if used appropriately Problem: There are Multiple MAC addresses associated with system e.g. Wired, Wifi & most importantly, VPN allocated MAC address. Only problem here is if machine is connected to VPN will give you the different MAC.

As you can see, There is no sure shot solution to get the reliable & consistent unique id for the machine. The solution has to be a hybrid one, where you prioritize & process the available h/w information and create or decide which one to use.

My Solution would be - Use Hard disk id & Mac id together - At least one id has to be matched - Get all available MAC addresses - At least one MAC ID should match The best way is to store hard disk ID & All MAC addresses in some encrypted file on that machine & again check with run-time values that you would get whenever you required later and cross verify it. The verification mechanism will be 1. Check stored Hard disk id with run-time one, If matched, everything is fine, No need to verify anything else 2. Check stored MAC with run-time one, At least, one MAC addresses should be matched here I hope this will help you in your research of machine identification.