please please please help !!!

[cornish mafia]

Hi guys

Right here goes : - I've installed windows 7 home premium 32bit on my sony vaio vgn-ns11j laptop. All is well but i can't for the life of me get the web cam to work. Have been every where looking for a fix and now find myself here with hopefully you forum gods to help me.
Does anyone know what to do or where to go to get the fix for this problem, i'm not the best computer man in the world but am willing to give it a go if anyone has an idea.
Would be nice to just have a link to a press and go to save me any chance to cocking it up when trying to fix it.
So there you go people can anyone get my web cam working ...........will leave the fact that the touchpad is all over the place until i see wht you come back with ......if indeed you do..:huh:

Many thanks

 

[richc46]

My guess is that you need a driver. What is the make and model of the webcam?

 

[Skulblaka]

You're probably missing the "software" or driver for that web-cam, did you connect it and try an update? Checking both "important" and "optional" categories in "Windows Update". It may help if you tell us what model of web-cam it is.

 

[cornish mafia]

think it's a lexmark x422 image device but it says driver is up todate and OK

 

[cornish mafia]

will be honest lads and say you 'll have to go easy with me as i'm probably not up to speed as much as you guys are on these things ...

 

[cornish mafia]

And just in case i need to say it the web cam is built in ..

 

[bigmck]

Did the webcam work before you installed Win 7? Do you have any software that was installed previously for the webcam?

 

[Orbital Shark]

You'll find that the Lexmark X422 is a printer Lexmark - X422 MFP - English

I'd advise looking at the Sony support site VAIO : Sony Europe to see if it yeilds driver results for your webcam.


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[koni]

edited:

post above had same link for sony site. sorry,

 

[gregrocker]

A built in webcam and touchpad will always be on the Support Downloads webpage for your model laptop at the Sony site linked above.

 

[paul1149]

Unless you are absolutely sure it isn't working, go to Test My Cam : Testmycam.com - test webcam - check your webcam and click "Allow" and see what it does. I thought my cam wasn't working, but it actually was fine.

 

[goguta]

I had the same problem after switching from Vista to Win7. I've just downloaded from my laptop's makers site thr driver indicated for my web cam & that's all.

 

[cornish mafia]

OK lads thanks for all the info , Of course you lot are right and i'm wrong ( as always ) so if the x422 is a printer i think i know what the problem there is so it's my motion eye cam that isn't working ......i can't seem to find it anywhere on here to even try and see if all is well and every time i look on the sony web site i can't even find the driver for the dam thing
Told you lot i was crap !!!
Anyway i will keep looking but any more ideas would be appreciated

Thanks to everyone already for their help ....

 

[Orbital Shark]

Try downloading the driver from the following link

Sony eSupport - VGN-FJ270/B - Software Updates & Drivers

   Tip

You will need to run the setup in http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html as the driver is designed for XP

Hope it helps


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