Crystal Eye Installer Unrecognized Camera

I have an Acer laptop model V5-471G which had windows 7 Home Premium factory installed; it also came with lots of bloatware. I have deleted all of the partitions (including the hidden recovery partition), reformatted the 500GB HDD and reinstalled Windows. Windows has been updated via internet up to the most recent updates. Emco Ping Monitor License Key.

I have reinstalled all of the original drivers and then most of the Acer applications. When I attempt to install the Acer Crystal Eye webcam, it eventually errors with a message 'no webcam found'. In Windows Device Manager, there is no 'Imaging Device' section, nor is there anything image-device-related in the 'USB controller' section. A multitude of Google searches reveals nothing except a multitude of other folks searching for the same solution (on Acer, HP, Toshiba, MSI, etc.). Invariably responders say 'install the correct driver', but there is no driver existing either in my backup disks or any Acer website. I believe that a driver can only be installed if Windows has found the hardware (which it appears to have not).

Sep 6, 2011 - Crystal eye doesn't recignize the camera. S H E F I N: After downloading the file, please extract it to desktop. S H E F I N: Then try instaling it again. JACUSTOMER-wgjrr5pi-: Chicony goes to a Crytal Eye installer then gives message Unrecognized camera. The other two never respond from the.

I have searched for 'Hidden' hardware, to no avail. Any fresh ideas? Mccoy Tyner Blues For Coltrane Rar Extractor. ? Thanks all for your replies. Zig - Thanks, but sadly there's no hidden devices Medico - Thanks, I'll try any other webcam drivers I can find for other Acer models; nothing to lose, eh?

Jwitalka - The Acer site only lists the Crystal Eye webcam app for the V5 models, and when loaded it eventually states 'no webcam found' The 'no webcam found' message is making sense to me, 'cause there's no video (?) device listed under USB controllers where it should normally be listed within Device Manager. The trick will be in somehow getting Win 7 to find the USB webcam. Again, thanks for the responses. Jwitalka, I had tried removing all USB deivers and then restarting Win 7. On restart, it reinstalled all USB devices. Still no Joy. I'll install the chipset driver & see what happens.

Medico, I went to the Acer website and installed drivers for Suyin, Chicony & LiteOn webcams. All three successfully installed the Acer Crystal Eye webcam application, but each version then states 'webcam not installed', 'no Acer video capture device fitted' or similar message. Michael37713, sadly no USB video device is listed. This is one reason why you should not delete the recovery partition unless you have a good image backup made prior to the deletion. You don't gain all that much disk space anyway.

If you contact Acer support, they may be able to point you to a driver and/or supply a recovery DVD. I have an Acer Laptop that I replaced the hard disk with an SSD.

I made a disk image of all the partitions and then restored them to the SSD including the recovery partition. This gives me two recovery options - factory restore and image backup. Pc Signal Generator Download Free Software more. I then clean installed Windows 8 RP to the main partition using Windows easy transfer to copy over my data and drivers. Web cam works fine. I do not think windows supports webcams natively and it is wondering why you keep banging it on the head with this new driver thingy it does not have a clue what to do with. I believe you will need some type of webcam software plus the proper driver to tell windows what to do. Skype is one type of webcam software I can think of off the top of my head.( Its a free download) You may also remember the name of the one you were using before and can get a copy.