Torgan
Gold Level Poster
Morning Folks,
Looking for the benefit of your advice if I may
When I received my new laptop, I decided to give my old Vortex II to my mother as a Christmas present.
I performed a fresh install of Win 7 and put all the drivers back on and everything seemed fine.
She has now told me that she wishes to use the Webcam for Skyping with her mates to discuss vitally important subjects such as cake recipes and who's hot on Strictly Come Dancing (personally I wouldn't put my old laptop through such an embarrassing situation, but she is adamant
)
The problems is that the Webcam is not showing up anywhere. I have attempted to install the driver, both from the PCS CD and from the Clevo website, and both say that they could not detect a webcam so were binning the installation until I powered it on.
I have also checked in Device Manager and there is no sign of any Imaging Device whatsoever.
As I cannot install a driver, and also cannot get at the device through any means that I am aware of, do you folks know of any way I can make the webcam visible and recognised by the OS enough for me to put a driver onto it.
When I was using the laptop myself, I never used the webcam at all, so I couldn't say whether it has ever functioned correctly, or indeed shown up in Device Manager at any time
Any thoughts greatly appreciated
Torgan
Looking for the benefit of your advice if I may
When I received my new laptop, I decided to give my old Vortex II to my mother as a Christmas present.
I performed a fresh install of Win 7 and put all the drivers back on and everything seemed fine.
She has now told me that she wishes to use the Webcam for Skyping with her mates to discuss vitally important subjects such as cake recipes and who's hot on Strictly Come Dancing (personally I wouldn't put my old laptop through such an embarrassing situation, but she is adamant
)The problems is that the Webcam is not showing up anywhere. I have attempted to install the driver, both from the PCS CD and from the Clevo website, and both say that they could not detect a webcam so were binning the installation until I powered it on.
I have also checked in Device Manager and there is no sign of any Imaging Device whatsoever.
As I cannot install a driver, and also cannot get at the device through any means that I am aware of, do you folks know of any way I can make the webcam visible and recognised by the OS enough for me to put a driver onto it.
When I was using the laptop myself, I never used the webcam at all, so I couldn't say whether it has ever functioned correctly, or indeed shown up in Device Manager at any time
Any thoughts greatly appreciated
Torgan
