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    Studio 15 Webcam Issue

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by JohnByeBye, Apr 9, 2009.

  1. JohnByeBye

    JohnByeBye Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi there! This looked like a knowledgeable and friendly place to share my experiences with so I decided to join. =)

    Bear with me, my laptop has quite a history for the 4 weeks I've had it. I bought this laptop from DELL outlet and I really like it. It originally had an AMD board and processor with the HD3200 graphics. To make a long story short the AMD board got too hot for my comfort so I sold it and bought an Intel board so here I am.

    Onto the webcam. The first day I got the laptop the webcam worked great with the DELL Webcam Center. I can't stand all the junk that comes preinstalled so I formatted the harddrive and installed Windows Vista Ultimate (as opposed to Home Premium.) Everything works great, except, now the webcam does not work with DELL Webcam Center. I have done everything under the sun trying to figure out why the hell it does not work. My webcam will work fine with every program except DELL Webcam center. I have gone back to Home Premium, deleted the webcam drivers and reinstalled, unplugged the webcam from the mobo, chatted with 4 tech support agents, installed inspiron webcam drivers, reinstalled dell webcam center about 50 times, to no freaking avail. I have absolutely no clue what is wrong with the dang thing. I thought installing an Intel mobo would fix the problem but apparently not. Here is the message that I get:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/Scottieboi/Blah.jpg

    If anyone has had this same problem and can shed some light on it that would be great. Thanks.
     
    JohnByeBye, Apr 9, 2009
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  2. Mastershroom

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    Did you reinstall the webcam drivers from the CD that came with your system, or from Dell's drivers & downloads page for your model?
     
    Mastershroom, Apr 9, 2009
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  3. JohnByeBye

    JohnByeBye Notebook Evangelist

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    I have installed the drivers from both the disk and the drivers and download page. Neither of them seem to make any difference.
     
    JohnByeBye, Apr 9, 2009
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