04b3:4550 NVRAM (128 KB)

IBM Corp.

Vendor ID
04b3
Product ID
4550
Combined
04b3:4550
Decimal
1203:17744

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a NVRAM (128 KB) manufactured by IBM Corp.. The vendor ID 04b3 is registered to IBM Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 4550 is the product ID that IBM Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04b3:4550 IBM Corp. NVRAM (128 KB).

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b3:4550 IBM Corp. NVRAM (128 KB)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04b3:4550, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04b3:4550. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04b3, idProduct=4550.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_04B3&PID_4550
USB\VID_04B3&PID_4550&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04B3&PID_4550"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    NVRAM (128 KB):
      Product ID: 0x4550
      Vendor ID: 0x04b3  (IBM Corp.)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

04b3  IBM Corp.
	4550  NVRAM (128 KB)

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