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    Z61t integrated camera detected in vista ultimate, but not business

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by bdonkey, Mar 11, 2007.

  1. bdonkey

    bdonkey Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,

    Does anyone know what the deal is with the integrated camera and Vista? I installed Vista Ultimate, and the camera worked great with everything, was detected, etc.

    But then I reinstalled using Vista Business, and the camera isn't detected at all. It's not a driver issue or anything; vista acts as if the camera doesn't exist. This is really frustrating me, since I used it with Skype quite often.

    Has anybody had the same problem?
     
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    bal3wolf Notebook Consultant

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    goto control panel then scanners and cameras if it errors might offer to start the service if it work and no error might look in services im not sure what they call it now for cameras.
     
    bal3wolf, Mar 11, 2007
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    I tried your advice. The scanners and cameras wizard didn't do anything, and using the manual add hardware button didn't display the camera driver, even after browsing to the extracted INF from the lenovo integrated camera package.

    Also, I tried messing with the Windows Image Acquisition service, but no go, either.

    Looking in the BIOS, I couldn't find anything that was related to the camera.
     
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    How very odd.

    After I shut down the computer completely and disconnected it from power for a while, the camera magically reappeared; on the next startup, windows detected it and installed the drivers.
     
    bdonkey, Mar 11, 2007
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