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    Toshiba Satellite A-305-S6916 webcam problem need help

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by molczak714, Nov 2, 2010.

  1. molczak714

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    Hi i have a A305-S6916 with win 7 ultimate everything worked great until just last night. The webcam stopped working. It used to say Chicony 2.0 now it just says usb webcam, i cant find any drivers for it, i tried everything driver programs, vista programs but i just cant find a driver for it anywhere, when i download the vista webcam software it says driver fail and to restart camera or computer. Any help out there or maybe a driver for it.
     
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    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    If you had the drivers installed in there already, try to do a driver roll back.

    If/when it does go back to your previous Chicony 2.0 driver (might need a reboot) - go to windows update, check for updates and make sure you right click and select 'hide' for any of the camera driver updates offered.

    Good luck.
     
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    molczak714 Newbie

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    Yeah this is a fresh copy of win 7 so i cant roll back it used to be windows vista but i just hated it, so i dont know it used to work just fine with 7 and i have no idea what happened
     
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    Hmmm... I'm confused.

    Did you just try to roll back the driver for the webcam?
     
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    i cant roll back i formated my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7 ultimate, i figured that would fix the problem but it didnt first time i installed windows 7 driver installed by itself
     
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