topic Vaio camera blue screen in PCs & Accessories

Vaio camera blue screen

evasvobodova — Sun, 08 May 2011 11:52:36 GMT

Hi, I bought a new vaio VPCEA1S1E and few weeks later I accidentally got virus on it. I didn't manage to back up any data (I know there's a vaio programme for it), so I reinstalled Windows 7 (64bit) from a new CD.

I downloaded all the drivers I found on sony webpage -I guess- and almost everything works fine (except the assist button (does nothing) and vaio button-which now works as mute button)
BUT I cannot start the camera-there's no driver, no utility for it in my pc.
Everytime I start an application that searches for the camera (skype etc.), the system crashes and blue screen appears.

I'm considering switching to Ubuntu soon, so I have a question whether there is any chance to fix the camera now that I'm still on Windows cause I'm not sure how vaio downloads work with linux. Thank you.

Vaio camera blue screen

evasvobodova — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:33:58 GMT

OK, I magically no-idea-how managed to fix it! Thank you God Almighty!

Vaio camera blue screen

Blencogo — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:13:59 GMT

Well done - that is good news.

The drivers for the camera are part of Windows and the camera should work with any Windows system.

I have no idea why it now works either but I am also thankful for you.

Vaio camera blue screen

evasvobodova — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:51:15 GMT

I don't know why it didn't work, it was normally displayed in the devices. But I think that the final solution was to update the driver.