Aug 20 2007
Trying to be too clever?
On Friday I decided to purchase a webcam because during my computer using life I have never owned one and now I’m making more and more Skype calls I thought its about time.
So I popped over to my wife’s shop Megatech Computers and picked up a MSI StarCam Clip. Its a neat little 1.3 megapixel camera with night vision and built in microphone. I checked the box and it didn’t state it supported Vista but they checked the MSI website and sure enough Vista drivers were available for download so I paid my money and left happy.
I got home and downloaded the 32bit Vista drivers and installed. All seemed well, I plugged the camera in and Vista began scanning the ‘Preconfigured Folders’ for the drivers, it stated that the microphone installed OK but spent over ten minutes looking for the USB camera drivers. After a while it picked up a HP driver from Windows Update that didn’t work. In frustration I uninstalled all the software and drivers and gave up for the weekend.
This morning as a last ditch attempt I put the driver disk with came with the camera into my machine and installed the XP drivers, plugged the camera in and within ten seconds all was installed and working OK. A quick test with Skype and behold, there I am on screen as shown above.
Moral of the story? Was I being too clever, I’m not sure but I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
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