Acer aspire 5630 orbicam wont work

hi. I have seen many threads on the internet about people having trouble with the built in orbicam on acer laptops. I myself have the acer aspire 5630. The cam has been working fine for some time but has stopped working completely. The only thing it does do is keep making the sound a computer makes when you plug something in and out of a usb portal. This makes the computer run slow at times and even crash. I get the notification either that this device has not been recognised by the computer, or that an unknown device has been connected to a driver that is too slow. And the advise to connect it to a faster usb portal.... Obviously the cam is connected internally so that is no option. I have been using another cam instead but the old cam keeps causing trouble bij 'plugging in and out' a hundred tmes. Ca someone either help me fix the cam or shut it down completely so my computer will ignore it?

 

disable the device in the "DEVICE MANAGER"

see windows help if ya cant find it... i have no clue how get there in Vista

disable it and it will be ignored

there is a fix floating aroung here... but involves taking COVER off LCD SCREEN and unplugging and replugging in the CAM connector while the PC is running,,, sounds kinda dangerous... but the cam is only a USB DEVICE... so it's plausable... you might search and read and find that info... i read it yesterday in the acer forum.... so it's on the first 2 or 3 pages

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umm.. i'ma a total noob when it comes to taking apart devices and i dont thin that would be an option for me... although i do think this might be the way to fix it... Could it be that the internal connection just failed? maybe i'll read up on the info.

 

shutting the camera off is no option since my computer doesnt find the camera at all.. just occasionally when it starts to swith on and off... could there be an internal broken cable?

 

Hey man, I don't know if this can help you but I've seen this fix over at theacerguy.com, sorry for the long read but it might be worth your while:

"I’d double click on the Oricam icon, and once again got that oh so familiar dialogue box that it needs to go online and search for a solution. Of course, I’m nowhere for the wireless to hook up, and closed the program’s dialogue box. My mouse was still hovering over the icon, and I realized that the icon only represents a link to a location somewhere on my hard drive.So, I used my favorite utility, Power Desk to show me the location the link refers to, and found it to be in the Windows folder under “BUVC_AP”. Keep in mind…I’ve done the updates, re-installs, etc to no avail, I opened that folder to find an executable called “Acer OrbiCam.exe”, I clicked on it, and nothing happened, just the usual frustrations…..Then, I scrutinized the tree some more, and found a “BisonC07″ folder, opened that folder and found two executables in that one…”BisonM07.exe” and “LiveCa07.exe”. Now, keep in mind, I’ve done my homework, followed all the useless tips, of which going to Device Manager and locating the imaging device that’s built into this laptop,I learned that it was a Bison driver, the Icon for the “BisonM07.exe” looked suspiciously like a winrar or zip icon, (compressed file to the newbie) so I decided to click on the “LiveCa07.exe” instead. Guess what, the camera went to life and I saw myself on the desktop of this laptop. I closed the program, clicked on it a few times to be sure I’m not seeing things, and promptly minimized the folder I was in, right clicked on the desktop icon, and sent it to the trash bin. (for the newbie, doing this only deletes the reference the icon represents, not the program) then I brought the open folder back into focus, resized the window, so I can drag the “LiveCa07.exe” file to the desktop. Oooops, it moved the file to the desktop, I didn’t want that to happen, so I copied the icon that’s on the desktop and pasted it back into the folder again, in case, somehow that desktop icon’s exe file gets hosed, I have a copy I can use in the future again. After that, I clicked on the icon from both locations, the desktop and the folder, to be sure the file works. Now you who reads this information now have a fix for your problem."