Anybody have webcam working on the C90s in Vista x64?

I sold my C90 to a new forum member and I was doing his OS/Driver install for him and I have wasted half my day trying to get the webcam working.

First I had this awful "test mode" deal happen that I had no idea what caused it. I found out the new webcam drivers cause this issue. I found Swoleys install progam and he has the original drivers on there from the disk but those do not work for me. Driver installs but you get an error when trying to run the webcam program AMCap, in the device manager you have the ! by the webcam and it says the drivers are installed but corrupt or malfunctioning.

Since then I have tried every combination of drivers I can find for the webcam to no avail. So is this an issue we never solved or am I just getting unlucky.

 

I'm running Vista 64 without any webcam issues. My drivers are version number: 1.0.4.20

 

Here is a direct link from Intel's site: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=2790&DwnldID=13575&lang=eng

 

I have already tried that one, its the one that comes on the driver disk actually but I am downloading it from the intel site and trying it again just incase.

Thanks for the input will let you know if it works.

Edit: worked! I have no clue why the new drivers from Asus site did not work or even the driver that was on my disk (wich is supposed to be the same one you linked me too) maybe I just had some conflict with the old/new drivers and it took a few reboots and deletes to get it all cleared up. But its good to go now!

+Rep for sure

 

Glad to hear : )

 

Good coincidence here.....last week i ended up having to use my laptop webcam on yahoo messenger only to get a BSOD everytime. The webcam program works but not in webcam conference....so I had been working on it since then with no solution as of 1 minute ago when i read this. Thankyou for finding a working version as I am also working on a new AutoInstall version. They will be up soon! WITH A NEW VGA DRIVER!!!! YAY

 

So this driver is not the same one thats in your auto install swoley? I just burned it on a disk for the guy that bought my C90S and told him to use that if he ever had to redo his drivers lol. Man redoing the drivers was a pain.

I wonder if my drivers disk has a different driver on it than the one linked above, also I did not even see that driver on the Asus site when I was looking for it.

Well thanks Intel for giving us working webcam & wireless drivers.

@ Swoley I also used the VGA drivers you had on your auto install, do those display drivers allow overclocking? Even if they dont, if I recall correctly the "turbogear vga" deal will do a small overclock on the card regardless of the vga drivers.

 

Since you seem to be testing the webcam the same way I am, I assumed since you said the driver Nightwalker posted worked that it will work for me also. I will test it along with the battery of test for the new autoinstall.

Yes, the 174.31 drivers included in the current autoinstall do allow overclocking....at least using evga precision. I do not know about rivatuner or atitools.

 

NEVERMIND!

I tried the link NightWalker posted on fresh install and still got BSOD. It may be due to having Vista SP1 though. I dont remember having the problem before SP1 but im not sure.

 

No its not SP1 the fresh install I did of SP1 works with it. What VGA drivers? I wonder if its a relation between the VGA & Webcam drivers that can cause an issue? Thats my only guess right now.

 

I'm also using SP1 with this driver and haven't had any issues.

 

Have you tried it with an instant messenging program like I did. It works fine just usin the webcam. But when using video conference on messenger or aim BSOD. Using 174.31 forceware and 175.97.

 

I have only used the AMCap program to see if it was working.

 

Same. Hmm.. I haven't tried it with AIM in a long time (6+ months), but it did work back then. I'll have to reinstall AIM to see if it works still. I'll report back later. BTW, I'm using 169.09 drivers if it matters.

 

Dear Jesus,

Please dont let it be ANOTHER nvidia driver problem....

 

That would be my guess. My first drivers I just installed wouldn't give me more than 1.0 vista index score lol. I never tested them in games to see if they worked.

 

I'm having the exact same problems in Vista 64

For the driver linked by Nightwalker...
That works for AMCAP but not for any other types of messenger-applications (at least not for me)
The worst part is that even using AMCAP would blue screen after a while, and then I'd need to reinstall the driver.

There is a "testing" driver that works if it's in Test Mode, but your webcam hardware won't display in normal mode.

Is this a VGA issue? I've never thought of that (not a comp genius here). Is there a way of fixing it then?

Ken from Gentech has been helping me with this issue but we haven't come up with a solution yet.

Edit: this is what it looks like for me http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/6086/p1070319bj3.jpg

 

Finally can use a messenger webcam without BSOD.

For now, I think I got it to work. What I think I did was install the new driver posted by gentech, 1.0.8.14 9/20/2007 and then tried to install an older driver 0.9.3.14 (2007.03.14) manually... that screwed it up so I went for the one nightwalker uses 1.0.4.2 I think which is what I started off with... and then tried the older driver using the setup file... when it restarted it must have installed the newer driver automatically and for whatever reason, works with yahoo webcam.

First success, so who knows how permanent it is. If anyone cares, I can add more info.

 

I had the same BSOD, I had installed swoley2k's Vista 64 pack and for what ever reason the web cam drivers didn't install right. I just went to the Asus C90s download site and downloaded the latest drivers for Vista and installed em and everything worked right.

 

Yeah, for whatever reason, the yahoo would always BSOD on me even after installing the new drivers.