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Windows 8 1 Doesn detect my built in Camera

It is quiet difficult to address this problem as there can be many reasons for the same. Although for your perusal i am writing a few and their solutions:

1) Most importantly check whether your Camera Driver is installed correctly. To ensure that, Right Click My Computer, Manage, Device Manager and look if you can see any yellow question marks. If yes than download the driver and install it.

2) Acer Laptops comes with a Camera Software Utility, open it and see what it tells you about the status of your camera. If an error comes please post it here in comments.

3) Your camera is generally connected with a strip to the motherboard, if everything else is right then there can be problem with it. The connection of the strip could be loose.

Are you using the software the laptop came preinstalled or is this an add-on camera that you installed.
Uninstall the software, delete the hardware in device manager. Go to the mfg site and download the correct software your your model. Reboot the machine and install the software before activating the camera. When the camera is turned on, Windows will detect new hardware and install the driver. You chould be able to go to Windows Explorer and see the camera image there!

Your camera will go from "hardly working" to working hard!

You should first verify that the USB port can recognize a USB memory stick i.e. verify that the USB port hardware is working. If its is not, use Device Manager to reload the USB Host Adapter drivers.


If this is an external USB device (laptop or desktop) ...

the Device Manager will always locate the camera, if only as an Other Device or sometimes with the wrong driver in another device class. One possibility, if the host PC is a laptop, is check the Power Scheme. Set this to Always On, as this is supposed to (but not always..) stop Windows from turning off external interfaces (such as USB) to conserve power.

Check if the camera will appear in Device Manager on another PC. This will verify that the camera hardware is functional.

If this is a laptop built-in WebCam, it will usually appear in Device Manager under Imaging Devices. If it does not, I'd suspect that the camera hardware has a problem.

Let's assume that this is an external USB Camera. When the camera driver is loaded, the driver INF file is copied to a new file

C:\Windows\inf\oem.inf where is an arbitrary number.

When you plug in the camera, Windows PlugandPlay looks in C:\Windows\inf for the correct driver to assign to the device.

Windows can get confused about drivers, esspecially if you have attempted to reload the driver, or load a newer version.

If you do a search for all C:\Windows\inf\oem*.inf containing "Toshiba" or "WebCam" you should be able to locate one or more oem*.inf files that is the installed driver for your webcam.

Lets say this file is oem31.inf Delete this file and also oem31.pnf if its present.

This removes the last driver that was installed. Now, run Device Manager, and plug in the camera. If Device Manager can locate the camera (as an Other Device to start with), you should be able to reload the correct driver, either from the installed driver directory (if there is one) or from you camera CD.

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2 Back up the computer's hard drive just to be safe. This will allow for a speedy recovery should the installation mess up the computer.
· 4 Install the webcam software. Before deciding to install the disc that came with the camera, check the Internet for an updated version of the software and download that if available.
· 5 Plug in the webcam. The software should give a prompt at the appropriate time. Cameras are usually installed with a USB cable. If installed correctly, the computer will acknowledge so by popping up a message saying it can see the new device.
· 6 Download an instant message program if using the web camera for chatting. Some free IM download programs include Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and Apple iChat.

3 Back up the computer's hard drive just to be safe. This will allow for a speedy recovery should the installation mess up the computer.

4 Install the webcam software. Before deciding to install the disc that came with the camera, check the Internet for an updated version of the software and download that if available.

5 Plug in the webcam. The software should give a prompt at the appropriate time. Cameras are usually installed with a USB cable. If installed correctly, the computer will acknowledge so by popping up a message saying it can see the new device.

6 Download an instant message program if using the web camera for chatting. Some free IM download programs include Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and Apple iChat.

Read more: How to Install a Webcam | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2075075_install-webcam.html#ixzz0wspP164A

• Install the webcam software.
• Before deciding to install the disc that came with the camera, check the Internet for an updated version of the software and download that if available.
• Plug in the webcam.
• The software should give a prompt at the appropriate time.
  Cameras are usually installed with a USB cable.
• If installed correctly, the computer will acknowledge so by popping up a message saying it can see the new device.
• Now check whether webcam works in yahoo messenger or google talk.

"I receive an error message" (sic) What is it exactly, what happens? Also Install everything as Administrator, ALSO set the setup/install program's .exe in, Compatibility Mode for XP SP2. and Run the actual program's .exe as Administrator, too. Ensure all network settings are correct too.

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Open the control panel switch classic view, click scanner and camera ,,click right aim camera in front and you can see your picture then ok.
If cannot see open control panel insert camera usb to computer , click add hardware just follow instruction on screen.
check also device manager

Well, I tried everything on this list in a matter of 5 minutes. Nothing worked. Then I made the old DSL modem analogy.

Plug in your camera.
Right click on My Computer, go to Properties.
Go to the Hardware panel, and click on device manager.
Find your camera listing in there (probably under imaging devices).
Right click on it, and select uninstall.
Unplug your camera and then replug it in.

Worked for me. Of course, take SilverDragon's advice before mine - you don't want to be configuring the wrong device for hours and not getting any picture at all.

-Moin