What if the laptop camera doesn't work?

Notebook camera can not be used for what reason how to solve:

A. Failure phenomenon: My notebook has its own camera, has been no problem, but today the operating system, with the ghost XP SP3, after the installation of the camera was found to open the screen is black, do not know how to solve, please advise!

Expert answer: The driver has a problem, General ghost version of the operating system is intelligent identification driver, as long as the chip model is almost the same it automatically to you, and the notebook with the camera is generally different from the market on the camera, driving out the problem is taken for granted.

Laptop cameras cannot be solved by:

1, look at the brand and model of your notebook.

2, go to the official website of notebook computer brand.

3, download this model notebook computer camera driver.

4, reinstall the driver, reboot the computer, solve the problem.

Two. notebook computer built-in camera can not be used for reasons and solutions

1, uninstall your original driver

Uninstall method: Right click on "My Computer"-"Properties"-"Hardware"-"Device Manager" or press CTRL+F1 directly, and then open the "Universal Serial Bus Controller", the following "USB Root Hub" are removed.

There is also open "Add Remove Program" in Control Panel there is no camera application such as vm301 program uninstall off.

2, and then reboot, reboot will find new hardware, then do not choose automatic installation, and then click "Next", and then "search floppy disk, CD ROM" hook, and other hooks are removed altogether. And put on the disc, do not install the drive from the CD. Let the system search automatically. This will allow the installation to succeed.

Why drivers are not easy to install

1, the current market in the popular star micro-camera driver version of a lot of users in the installation of the uninstall drive in the process of residual garbage files in the system registry, resulting in the subsequent driver update process installation difficulties.

2, there is currently a cloning operation system, which integrates the old version of the star and passed the WHQL drive, when the user installs the newly bought camera or update the latest driver, the camera does not work properly.

Method One, automatic unload method

Step one, click on the Start menu of the corresponding drive uninstall uninstall, (it is possible that the uninstall function has been damaged, then you can install a new driver for the reverse installation, the system will first uninstall the old drive, the same can be achieved. )

In step two, select the following executable file in the attachment before the new driver installation:

For_xp_me_98.exe for Windows xp/me/98

For_win2k.exe for Windows 2000

(Note: This tool requires the system's default path to be C-disk to be valid, and if an error dialog box appears under the Windows ME/98 operating system that the system is clean, the tool will not harm an already installed drive)

Step three, install the new driver.

Method two, manual uninstall method

Step one, in My Computer-tools-Folder Options-View the hidden files and folders are selected to show all files and folders.

Then go to the C:windowsinf folder to have all OEM files (such as oem0.inf,oem0.pnf;oem1.inf,oem1.pnf ...) Cut and move to another directory to save or manually delete the corresponding OEM file for the camera

Step two, after completing the above steps, insert the USB camera, when the computer will find new hardware and pop-up installation drive information, choose to cancel, and then right-click My Computer, select Properties, in the pop-up System Properties interface, enter the system Properties-hardware-Device Manager will have an exclamation point of the PC Camera Press the right mouse button to uninstall.

Step three, remove the camera and start installing a new driver.

In view of the second phenomenon above

Step one, the cloning operation system is the camera driver default storage under the C:windowsdrivercamera301p folder, when you click on the new camera driver CD installation, the system will not be prompted that there is a camera driver. To uninstall this drive, please find and delete this folder;

Step two, the first installation of a new camera driver, and then plug in the camera loading hardware, after the installation of the computer can be normal use after restarting;

Step three, do not need to repeat the above two steps, directly click on the new CD to install the latest drive, plug in the camera after the system detects new hardware, and automatically complete the hardware drive load;

Step four, into the Device Manager, you can see the image processing equipment has been successfully installed, but when you open the "AMCap" preview image will appear unable to preview, screen, black screen phenomenon;

Step five, put the right mouse button in the image processing device "Vimicro USB PC Camera (ZC0301PL)" Update the Driver, the dialog box to select "From the list or designated as the location of the installation;"

Step six, select "Do not search" after choosing next and go to the "Install from floppy" interface.

Step Seven: Click Browse to point the path to the "Usbvm31b.inf" below the drive CD directory or the latest driver directory

Step 8:1 and click "Next" to complete the drive installation.