NP9262 webcam problem

I can't seem to install the drivers for the webcam on my NP9262. It is operating just fine on my Vista 64 side however whenever I try to install the drivers on my XP Pro 64 side, it tells me that I need to install windows 2000 service pack 4. I tried to install this but of course the installation was aborted since I'm running XP Pro 64. And yes, the camera is turned on before I try to install the drivers by pressing Fn+F10. Some help would be appreciated.

 

I'd be a little leery about getting that driver to work if it thinks that you're running Win2K and not XP-Pro 64; XP-Pro 64 had a terrible time with not having adequate drivers, so you may never be able to get a good driver to install.

 

Why is this the case? I REALLY don't like Vista however running a 32 bit OS (XP Pro 32) kinda defeats the purpose of going all out on this machine. This is rather frustrating. Got a powerful machine but can't utilize it the way I want to because of the OS's.

 

XP-Pro 64-bit never got good driver support because it was always basically treated like an orphan - at the time it was released, there were few if any mainstream systems that could "do" a 64-bit OS so consequently there were very few component vendors interested in devoting scarce resources to developing drivers for something that would never have a big user base, and Microsoft never really put much oomph behind it once it was released. Basically, it was a little too far ahead of its time.

You could always try a non-Windows 64-bit OS, such as some of the 64-bit linux variants.

Also, what, precisely, don't you like about _Vista in its 64-bit incarnation?

 

Well the thing I noticed about Vista is that it slows down after a couple of hours of being on. I can leave my XP on for DAYS at a time and everything still runs as if it just booted up. On Vista though, after about 2 hours, it takes a few seconds just to switch between windows. And opening up new things takes far longer than it should. Given the power that my 9262 wields, nothing should ever take time to load (especially not just switching through windows). My 3 year old laptop handles basic stuff better than my new 9262 on Vista. It's just rather another annoying. I need to figure out what needs to be done to tweak it....

 

Then you've got some sort of a problem with your _Vista installation, and I don't think it's a matter of something internal to _Vista itself that needs tweaking out; it sounds more like you've got something like a bad/corrupt driver or a badly written app that's got a memory leak. Let the system run for a while - until it starts to bog down - and then take a look at your running processes to see how much memory each is consuming (of course, you will have done the same thing when the system first booted up so you could establish a baseline against which to measure that usage when the system begins to bog down).

 

Yeah I did that actually but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Not to mention, this is a fresh install of Vista with only the most basic programs installed (firefox, thunderbird, AIM, and divx), nothing else is installed on it.

 

Did you use any of the Sysinternals utilities to analyze what was going on with your system? If not, I'd suggest giving them a try, e.g., Process Explorer. Those utilities were, for the most part, written by Mark Russinovich, one of the co-authors of Windows_Internals, which is one of the mainstays of understanding the plumbing of the WinOS, and will give you a very good idea of what's going on with your installation of _Vista.