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Greetings, I've recently registered in this forum in search for advice in how to do a hard reset to an ip camera HIKVISION ds-2cd1301-i. I've opened the case and revealed the circuit board in search for a hard reset button, but there is no such switch. The only thing I've found is four copper contacts next to a capacitor (see CP38 in attached photo) but I do not know if they serve for hard reset and/or in which combination.

Any advice will be helpful...

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VorlonFrog
VorlonFrog
CP38 may possibly be a console serial port. If you have a TTL-to-USB cable, and can determine GND, TX, RX, and VCC values with a digital voltmeter, you can open a PuTTY session to the camera and capture output from the boot process. This console output should give you some indication of the problem.
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Mike
Mike
Check out the wiki and create a post in the forum for better help :)

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