Vaio FE Built-In Camera

Hello,

Ill probably get crucified for asking such a silly question... but how do i use the camera? ive tried using it through my yahoo and msn IM but they both say that there is no camera connected... ????

 

nobody? is there a camera utility iam missing somewhere? ill look a little harder... but iam lazy thats why iam asking here... lol

 

click on my computer and it's at the bottom

 

311... thanks i was just going to reply that i found it... and also to say that... i clicked and it came up and the picture was great than it immediately showed an error and windows restarted ... i don't know what the error was it was far to short a time for me to be able to read it.. and now when i go to my computer the camera is no longer listed... hmmm now this is odd... forgot to mention that a menu came up over the camera and i clicked standard on that pop up as soon as i clicked it that is when the computer showed error than immediately windows restarted... when i logged back in it said windows has recovered from a serious error.... PLEASE HELP!!!

 

Tried a system restore to time this morning when i updated some virus stuff... and still nothing...

 

downloaded the driver and that didn't help... here is the link if anyone wants it:

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNFE590G&upd_id=2097&os_id=16

 

Kinda talking to myself here.. haha Well i got it to work after uninstalling it and re-installing it... but now... a new problem... it turns on and works perfect for a few seconds than turns to an image to my right and has lines across the image and is tinted yellow... iam really getting frustrated with this thing... i think ill take a break.....

 

Is anybody else having problems with this on their FE? Because again the camera will not show up in my computer. And after i reload the driver norton says an attempt to attack your computer was blocked. And since i started trying to use the camera the battery has been charging constantly.. A few times i got caution messages that the battery was either connected wrong or not the correct battery for this computer and should be replaced... and when i pressed "ok" the only button offered it would hibernate while i was to disconnect and reconnect the battery..... this happened over and over again about 6 times and it finally stopped... I think i may have a heart attack by the end of the day....

 

Heres what i get in the device manager.... and notice the battery charging icon in the task manager... since i started trying to use the camera it has not stopped charging the battery....

 

Thanks. This makes me happy that I didn't get the camera

 

did you apply the fix for battery leakage on your laptop?

 

nope..... didnt try the fix...... sony customer service... recommended reinstalling driver it didnt work... then they said system restore it didn't work... and i just finished a full system recovery... and it didn't work.... so ill talk to them again... and see what happens

 

Is it possible that the camera is disabled? I have a camera on my laptop - one time I couldn't get it to work no matter what I did. Then I found out it wasn't enabled - did so, worked right away. So, check your owner's manual and see if a certain combination of Fn + Fx keys will enable it, etc. . .

 

maybe you should format everything and reinstall windows and install everything clean? those restore thingies aren't 100% clean.

 

no sony rep has been able to figure this out so iam going to return it and get another one... does sony make people pay for the return shipping if the problem is defect?