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    Sony vaio - Camera not detected after moved from linux to win 8

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by heirdy, Jun 22, 2013.

  1. heirdy

    heirdy Newbie

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    Hi,

    I recently bought Sony Vaio E1513CYNB on a deal on ebay. It's came with linux stock os something like Red flag. I have installed windows 8 pro 64 bit version on it now. But when I click on the camera icon, it says please connect a camera which wasn't there before I installed windows 8. I took some picture on it when It was running on linux.

    Have anybody faced such an issue? Do I need to install any drivers? I didn't see any particular drivers associated with camera on sony website. Could you please help me guys?

    I would much appreciate any help :)
     
    heirdy, Jun 22, 2013
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    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    First thing first is going to device manager and see any yellow exclamation.
     
    ngvuanh, Jun 22, 2013
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    heirdy Newbie

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    Thanks!

    Could you please tell me under which tab on the left that I should be looking for that yellow exclamation in Device manager?
     
    heirdy, Jun 23, 2013
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    You should see Imaging Devices. By default, camera should be installed default Windows 8 driver.
     
    ngvuanh, Jun 23, 2013
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    Just look for anything in device manager with an exclamation mark. If the driver isn't installed it could be anywhere in the list, listed as something vague, e.g. 'unknown device'.
     
    anytimer, Jun 23, 2013
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    Hi,

    Thanks again! But there isn't Imaging devices menu in there, but it's available with my dell laptop. Why isn't available in my Sony vaio? Also you mentioned that it gets installed with windows 8 by default, but in my case it didn't. What should I do now?

    Best,
     
    heirdy, Jun 25, 2013
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    heirdy Newbie

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    @anytimer
    Thanks for your help!

    There is this 'unknown device' with option such as update, disable, uninstall. Should I click on the update? Will that go to the online page automatically and download the required drivers?

    Thanks!
     
    heirdy, Jun 25, 2013
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    While installing Windows 8, did you install the chipset drivers that you downloaded from the Sony website?
     
    anytimer, Jun 25, 2013
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    heirdy, Jun 26, 2013
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    Can you take a snapshot of device manager and post it here? It would help us to know more about your issue.

    Sent from my LT30at using Tapatalk 2
     
    ngvuanh, Jun 26, 2013
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    A friend of mine faced this same issue when she tried to install Windows 7 on a Samsung netbook that originally had a Linux based OS. I tried helping her via email but after several unsuccessful attempts she returned it and got something else. Are cameras meant for Linux wired differently somehow? Maybe a DIP switch/ jumper/ solder bridge needs to be changed?
     
    anytimer, Jun 26, 2013
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