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    camera won't start

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by Anggrian, Jan 11, 2012.

  1. Anggrian

    Anggrian Notebook Evangelist

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    AlienSense suddenly stopped working, as well as YouCam. I checked Devices and Printer, it detect Laptop_Intergrated_Webcam_2M, it even says "The device is working properly". What is happening to my webcam????
     
    Anggrian, Jan 11, 2012
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    Hit the keyboard shortcut Fn+?F2

    The image of the webcam should be on the relevant key
     
    paradigm, Jan 11, 2012
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    Try Fn+F9, or try to reinstall the windows. Actually M15X does not have webcam driver, it use windows driver so you uninstall the driver from the device manager, and let it reinstall the driver itself
     
    Alienware_M15X, Jan 11, 2012
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    Fn+F9 won't help.. when the camera on and detected by windows, youcam still showing a blank screen
     
    Anggrian, Jan 12, 2012
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    already uninstalled and windows automatically installed it back, but problem still remains.. is there another possibility?
     
    Anggrian, Jan 12, 2012
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    reflash the bios.. it'll work...
     
    paradigm, Jan 12, 2012
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    I took a long time updating my BIOS into A09, unfortunately it doesn't fix my camera
     
    Anggrian, Jan 14, 2012
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    I know this is probably a given... but did you check the settings in the app to make sure it was pointing to the right input device?
     
    csin, Jan 14, 2012
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    After I re-update my BIOS to A09, YouCam crashed everytime I try to open it.
    But I got a free version of ManyCam and pointed to Integrated Camera in it, still didn't fix the problem
     
    Anggrian, Jan 16, 2012
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  10. paradigm

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    no no.....downgrade to A08...not upgrade to A09 :)
     
    paradigm, Jan 17, 2012
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    sounds less convincing.. you sure?
     
    Anggrian, Jan 18, 2012
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