I don't have all your answers, but I have a couple:
Do you mean two drivers are trying to run simultanerously? Unless the
instructions say to do that, it could cause a lot of problems.
Makes lots of sense.
That message is pointless and generally useless as long as you trust the
software you have. MS at one time dreamed of being the king of all software
installations and thought the world would register their software with them.
Well, no one did of course, or hardly anyone, which makes sense. If it IS MS
trusted, then it should be fine to use. If it's not, it's up to the user to
know where they got the software from and to know it's safe to use (free of
bad code, malicious code, etc). So it's quite safe to use as long as you are
sure the place you got it from is a white hat. In other words, you used
common sense<g>.
...
Again the direct-to-file link only seems to work the same day. Still
atleast the two
http://cid links to the folders work.
Anyway I recently used another computer. This day this computer is
called t4. I thought i'd check out device manager before installing
HPBasic Starter Camera driver and it shows a code 1: this device is
not configured correctly
I've uploaded JPG screengrabs to a zip file here...
http://cid-64f5892d2f88d17f.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/t4.zip
Then installed HPBSC driver and the camera worked. Then i installed
amcap USBPCCamPlus_v5.18.1.005_120standard(1.3M).exe
http://download.chinavasion.com/download/drivers/USBPCCamPlus_v5.18.1.005_120standard(1.3M).exe
(is the file)
....tried the camera but ofcourse it wants to install sn9c120 which i
resist. then uninstalled amcap. Then plug in the camera and it calls
it 'usb camera' 'new hardware found' which last time i when
uninstalled amcap months ago it didn't (that maybe cos i installed the
sn9c120 driver too). I install HPBSC driver and test the camera and it
works! This is a success - no permanent damage to the operating
system.
In device manager 'USB Camera' has moved from 'other devices' to
'imaging devices' that is until i installed the HPBSCdriver when in
imaging devices it turned from a !(exclamation mark)"usb camera" to HP
Basic Starter Camera.
Screenshot of HPBSC driver properties says version 5.18.1.2 dated 16
Mar 2007.
Next i want to see if i can have amcap working with the Hewlett
Packard BSC driver.
I did manage to install Amcap till the warning window logo message
appeared and the system tray pop up said i had a webcam attached, i
then unplugged my dental camera, so then i finish off the
installation. Then am surprised that it wants to restart the computer
because the last installation didn't want to. So I'm thinking its
because the camera was plugged in during instalation. so then i
restart the pc and it occurs to me that i could've tested the camera
right there before restart the PC but its too late. when windows loads
up theres a error message - something missing - i try amcap - it don't
work and nothing in cameras and scanners.
(The next test (on another day in the future) would be to install the
sn9c120 driver which seems to come with amcap)
I then uninstall amcap again from add remove programs - (which
mentions Sonix for technical support.)
My 3rd installation: i didn't have the camera plugged in but it still
wanted to restart pc but before i did that, i thought i'd see if
scanners and cameras in my computer had HPBSC driver and it did and
the dental camera worked! I then tried amcap and it worked with the
camera too! although the frame rate seemed slower than in scanners and
cameras.
Indeed as it shows on the screen grab, it says 3.5 fps although it
also say 0.884 Meg/sec which seems a lot. Why's the frame rate so
little yet the file size is so big?
Any thoughts are welcome.
