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    Unable to install webcam drivers

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by chipmoney, Jul 15, 2011.

  1. chipmoney

    chipmoney Notebook Evangelist

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    My Asus M50sv-a1 is now running windows 7 32 bit and I cannot install the webcam drivers either from the driver CD or the support website. The ones provided online and on the disc are for vista and whenever I try to install them I just receive and error message that says "Install failed! USB2.0 UBC VGA/1.3M WebCam" No installation dialogue comes up on the screen, just this error message.


    Any help is greatly appreciated.
     
    chipmoney, Jul 15, 2011
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  2. Full-English

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    Have you tried going into device manager, right clicking on the device, and try updating the drivers from there?
     
    Full-English, Jul 15, 2011
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  3. chipmoney

    chipmoney Notebook Evangelist

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    Well I was just able to get it working...

    All i did was unistall it from within the programs list and then restarted the computer and windows found the appropriate driver and it started working when i turned it back on.

    I can't believe it was that simple...

    Thanks for the input though.
     
    chipmoney, Jul 15, 2011
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    Yes W7 has a generic driver for most all webcams, if you cannot get it installed easily like you did, use device manager to manually install the native W7 driver using the "have disk" method

    Then browse to the "C:\Windows\inf" folder and find "usbvideo.inf" select it and it should load the drivers.
     
    MoabUtah, Jul 15, 2011
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