Hi All
having a nightmare that can be quickly solved if i can only find the driver.
so i have the sony vaio vgn-aw41mf over 10 year old but its still my workhorse.
worked fine and the feckin upgrade to win 10 due to win 7 support ending.
long story short days and days of googling and frustration i have now put on a fresh instal of win 7 everything fine except webcam. ok thats the back story heres what i need.
in device manager i have no built in webcam or imaging device section.
the webcam is showing as base system device its the only yellow exclamation laptop has.
tried everywhere to find the driver i think the manufacturer is ricoh?
many others have suffered this issue and i think the closest i got to a solution was this guys answer below
If anyone is having trouble getting this driver to install on their Windows 7 Vaio, the problem is not the driver itself, but the installer, which does not work with Windows 7. I had the same problem as everyone else, but I downloaded/installed the Universal Extractor (link removed cause it flagged as spam) and the driver installer (link removed as it flagged as spam). I ran the Extractor on the Driver's Installer, which extracted all of the files. I then executed the x64 installer file (RIDCAM-14566600-US\TEMPEXEFOLDER\DPInst64.exe). This properly updated the driver and my webcam has been functioning normally since. Hope this helps others!
Someone must have a clue what driver i need
so again i have the sony vaio vgn-aw41mf with win 7 home premium the original OS the issue is no webcam recognised. I have installed all available drivers from sonys support page
