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    Motion eye on VPCZ116GA

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by omozali, Aug 10, 2010.

  1. omozali

    omozali Newbie

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    Greetings,
    I just bought sony vaio VPCZ116GA 3 weeks ago. I'm very happy with it. very fast boot (30 secs or less), 6 GB RAM and wonderful graphics plus dynamic hybrid graphics acceleration. its running win 7 pro 64

    I thing is that, yesterday was my first attempt to use the motion eye camcorder and to my surprise it did not work. I checked under device manager and could not find the camera there. I search the internet , sony support, sony download site for my laptop and could not find drivers for 64 system

    I attempted to download 32 system drivers and refused to install, i tried even copying them manually but the stupid "trustedinstaller
    ' prevented me from overwritting couple of drivers

    I far as I can tell the camcorder is not being detected by windows for some reason

    Any help is greatly appreciated
     
    omozali, Aug 10, 2010
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  2. beaups

    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    Do you see a "Sony Visual Communication Camera" under Imaging devices in device manager? If not, you may have a hardware failure.

    Any unknown devices or devices with an exclamation point in device manageR?
     
    beaups, Aug 10, 2010
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  3. Ungjaevel

    Ungjaevel Notebook Consultant

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    Ungjaevel, Aug 11, 2010
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  4. jogheads

    jogheads Notebook Enthusiast

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    try launching your webcam companion 3 software... on the initial window click on "Capture" then check on the camera hardware connection status by pressing Ctrl+D...
     
    jogheads, Aug 11, 2010
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    Ungjaevel Notebook Consultant

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    It asks if it's OK to stop, I say yes, and everything stops.
    I click yes, and cam offline.
    CTRL+D again, back to normal. No errors.
    Just black.
     
    Ungjaevel, Aug 11, 2010
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  6. Ungjaevel

    Ungjaevel Notebook Consultant

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    Bump. Anyone got any intel?
     
    Ungjaevel, Aug 12, 2010
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    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    Sounds like your camera is broken or you put a piece of black tape over it ;)
     
    beaups, Aug 12, 2010
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    jogheads Notebook Enthusiast

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    hmmm.. maybe a hardware issue..
     
    jogheads, Aug 12, 2010
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    Andrew08 Notebook Evangelist

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    try cyberlink youcam first, i happened before... and cyberlink youcam older version work for me...
     
    Andrew08, Aug 13, 2010
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    I have exactly the same problem... complete camera failure from the moment I bought the same laptop.. (I only attempted to used the camera 4 months after purchase).... as if its not connected to the processor board.

    I think laptop should go back to the workshop
     
    omozali, May 22, 2011
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