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Webcam issues

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  • 12-09-2014 12:57pm
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    kelbal
    Registered Users Posts: 839 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I have an Acer laptop with inbuilt webcam

    Have rarely used it, but as a relative just emigrated to the US, tried doing a google hangout video chat the other day. It worked for about 2 minutes, then quit.

    Device manager in windows sees it, and upon trying to update the driver I'm told that the latest driver is installed. I removed it, and let device manager re-detect it, same problem again. I went to the acer website and tried different drivers, no joy.

    I've tried other webcam applications, and none of them see it, so its not just Google Hangouts.

    So, windows detects the webcam and thinks its fine - but none of the programs trying to access it can detect it.

    Any ideas?

    thanks a mil


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