Updated to Windows 8

I have ugraded to windows 8 and my webcam will not work, my model is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 300. Does anyone else have this problem and have they been able to overcome it.

 

They're called drivers. Visit Toshiba's website and look for Windows 8 drivers.

 

I have been on their site but they do not have drivers for Windows 8

 

You can try the drivers for Win7 or Vista - but a model that shipped around 2007 (with Vista RTM being Nov 2006) I don't think you'll have too much luck if the original shipping drivers don't work.



Sorry, but good luck to you.

 

Does the webcam show up in your Device Manager? If so, see what options you have to update the drivers via Device Manager. You could also try downloading Windows 8 webcam drivers for later Toshiba Satellite notebooks or poking around in the Toshiba subforum here to see if anybody else has run into the same problem, or even doing a Google search. There should be some way of getting the webcam to work if you dig deep enough.

 

It is not always a good idea to jump into a new OS until you research driver compatibility. I know sometimes you just don't know until you get into the OS, but considering there are no Windows 8 drivers is a tell tale sign that there likely won't be either.

 

Sometimes YAWCAM drivers will work. You could try it. They worked for me on a old Gateway laptop. Just Google YAWCAM.

 

Unless the manufacture makes drivers for Windows8 your out of luck in getting it to work with Windows8. You haven't told us why you wanted to go Windows8 for if you already have a good O/S Windows7 if you have it or which O/S are you currently using? I would advise like the other poster to research the drivers for your laptop before loading a different O/S that didn't have driver support for it. And being old as it is for a laptop I could see why there is no drivers support for it. Just a Google search comes up with that Toshiba was loaded with XP and that should've given you some forethought as what O/S would be support by that laptop. I have a similar model like yours and loaded it with Windows7x64 and that was the extend O/S upgrade I went. That laptop is old by today standards for O/S upgrade and you would've gotten more usefulness from it in using going Windows7 first.

 

I have overcome my problem simply by downloading driver for windows 7 and it works.

 

Hey! Glad it worked out for you.

 

Good to know that the 7 driver works for Windows 8! In the future, if you run into a similar problem but an older driver doesn't work, you can try running a driver in compatibility mode when installing and cross your fingers.

 

Yes I took your advise as I had nothing to lose. I am certainly smiling now.