USB CAmera

Missouri Bound

I have a small, cheap USB camera which I purchased 2 years ago for the "heck" of it. It worked fine on my last PC with Windows XP but it will not work with my new Windows 7 PC. The computer recognizes it, says it is installed and working properly but there is no way to see an image from it.
I know others have had these problems with USB cams and Windows 7 but nobody seems to have an answer. PLease point me in the right direction.

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MT Stringer

Throw it away and get one that works with Win7. Stress will be over and done with. :-) You did say it was cheap, right?

Missouri Bound

Yep...cheap. And stress isn't the issue. I want to know why it doesn't work. Windows 7 says it works properly, it finds and downloads the software and it appears on the computer device menu. And it works fine on the XP computers I still have. Throwing it out doesn't seem like any answer.

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sdsester

Is your Windows 7 machine 64-bit by chance? And all the other machines the camera works on are 32-bit or lower?

64-bit machines cannot handle legacy code (e.g. 8-bit strings) that work fine on 32-bit and lower machines.

Just my guess. It is not W7's fault. It is recognizing the device. It is a software/driver compatibility problem at the chipset level.

No fix for it but to rewrite the code and strip out the legacy stuff. Have you double checked and searched yourself for a new driver?

Try [camera name] drivers in Google directly.

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Chris0516

I second what was said above. As far as the difference in the code. Because I bought a Canon A630 in 2006(back when 6/8MP was the best on the market). It worked fine on my XP Pro system. At the time, my computer was:

950Mhz
WinXP Pro(32-bit)
1GB RAM

Now, My new computer is:

2.90Ghz
Win7 Pro(64-bit)
4GB RAM

It works fine on my Win7 system.

Which means that, the coding allowed for upgrading from a 32-bit OS, to a 64-bit OS.

Since you have upgraded the drivers', ask the company's tech support people.