My acer has been reformatted but the driver for the webcam wasnt.help!!!

Hi,
You need to install a new driver for the webcam.
Just go to the laptop's manufacturer site or if you have the cd, and download the webcam driver, unzip it afterwards.
Hope that helped you out!

http://download.cnet.com/Acer-Crystal-Eye-webcam/3000-2108_4-188685.html

If you were to log on to the acer.com web site, usually one is able to download if available, by model number, Customer Instruction Manuals, list of Dealers, for spare parts and service, Driver downloads and Installation Instructions as required.

This is the best way of ensuring up to date drivers for your system and they are free of charge!

There are no XP drivers to be found with Microsoft as XP is no longer supported.

Some manufacturers may have a limited number of Drivers still listed.

I hope this helps.

to check for whether ur laptop integrated webcam works or not as in whether it has sufficient drivers etc download the yahoo messanger and then try finding "my webcam" from the menu. click on it and if ur webcam is seen then u have the drivers needed to run the webcam. now if webchat is the only reason why u need the webcam then this is the solution. but if u want to work with ur webcam on ur laptop what u need will be the camera software. it came with ur laptop installation cds install it from there

You may not be able to find the driver for the Crystal Eye. Acer didn't really offer these drivers like they should have. If you don't use the webcam that much then you can just ignore the fact the the webcam driver isn't installed. You could contact ACER and they may help you with finding the correct driver. I would first go to ACER's website, jump thru the hoops the have and see if they offer a driver download for it. I wouldn't get my hopes up though. I've been to their site on several occasions looking for the Crystal Eye driver, and I've probably only found the correct driver once or twice. There's more than one version of their Crystal Eye Webcam, so finding the driver is a real head-ache. If you can't find it on their website, and if you can't get any help from their techs with it, then it would be easier to go out & buy a new USB webcam.

As with all laptops parts are sourced from different manufacturers. Laptops had to be certified for WIN 7. Some ACERs laptop models are, but if the model wasnt certified for the WIN 7 platform they would not have developed a driver for your model. After checking ACER did NOT certify this unit as Windows 7 Compatibile due to driver incompatibilities. You can either downgrade to Windows Vista.. which will require a full reformat of drive (WIN 7 doesnt just uninstall) and reinstall from fresh VISTA.. so be sure and save your data. Or you can determine who makes the webcam in teh notebook and see if the manufacturer has a direct driver..OR FINALLY.. you could load the Vista driver and then go into the webcam software you use and right click and say run in "Windows vista" or "Windows XP" compatible mode. Be sure and keep looking at ACER to see if they state your system can go to Win 7 at a later date as sometime manufacturers will make drivers available which could change its status.

go online www.acer.com then choose make, model,and country and all the drivers will be there, you can download them free.
hope this helps.

acer aspire 5534 does not have a webcam..some models of acer aspire do but acer aspire 5543 does not. I have the same laptop and I am trying to figure out the same thing. The acer aspire 5543 has a webcam cover where a webcam can be put but it does not actually have a webcam itself.

Hey,

the wrong driver is installed look on the acer driver pages
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html

try diffrent webcam drivers, try all that are available one of them will work and thats the right one.


Let me know if you need anything else.


Thanks,
Ekse

Go here...
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5570.html

Select the os you have ...
If windows xp select the webcam driver at the bottom...