I have Acer 5100 with an inbuilt camera. Certain updates were downloaded and it stopped working.I do not know the culprit update!. It keeps telling me my acecam can work better if i changed the USB port. I for some reasons have not seen or read any tread similar to my problem. Please help ---Segun

For any kind of update with Acer laptops you can got to their support site
(support.acer.com)

Click on the link for Driver download

Select the Driver according to your product

Download the Driver to your computer and run it

download the drivers for the mic
(probably Audio Drivers)

or

update windows drivers on the internet

or

www.acer.co.nz

driver downloads sections and install them

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Sometimes the acer orbicam software will stop working if you have pictures saved in the "my pictures" folder.

Yes this is very weird, but I have seen it happen.

if you need updates for the orbicam software:

www.acerpanam.com

Check the driver status of the USB. You can do this by accessing the Device Manager. For users using Windows XP, just click the Start icon. On the Run box, type devmgmt.msc. You can also do the same with Vista.

Next thing, check for devices with an (!) sign with a yellow background. These devices needs driver update or correct driver should be installed.

For a start, you can do a Windows Update. Click Start, All Programs, and then Windows Update. This will download patches for your system.

HI,

Please click on the below link and then choose the correct model no. of your laptop and then download and install the webcam drivers once again.
This should fix the issue.Let me know the result

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html.

Thank You

You could try updating the software for your webcam or reïnstalling your current one.

Hi there
You can get all the drivers for that model from acer support site>>>>

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5100.html

Good luck and thanks for using Fixya!

THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS WHICH CAN CAUSE THAT

1. is your O/S version up to date? There have been updates to the USB support in every version of Windows go to windows updates
2. is your system BIOS is up to date. BIOS support is an important part of USB support, you can update depending on the manufacturer
3. Make certain that your USB Hardware drivers are up to date.
4. If you're using Windows XP run the system file checker to be sure that Windows is not damaged
5. update spyware and virus scan
6. make sure that'any software that came with the hard is up to date, and installed properly.

if do these i believe the problem will b solved but if it persist let me know

What happens when you follow the link to update it? The webcam software probably wants to update itself or the camera drivers.

If you are able, when the pc is booting up keep pressing F8, this will take you to safe mode and not allow the graphics driver to run. When in the safe mode options, select either Last known good configuration or start windows in safe mode. Last known good configuration should find the last good system settings, when it reboots. Start windows in safe mode allows you to go into windows using the administartor account, and then you should select system restore and restore back to the day before or just before you updated the graphics driver.