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eric lecocq
bonjour,

j'ai une webcam creative notebook webcam qui marche parfaitement sur un pc
en W2000.
et pas du tout sur Windows ME.

j'ai tout essayé.
Elle fonctionne pendant 1/4 d'heure ensuite ou j'ai un écran noir ou ....
elle plante le PC (msn Messenger)

qqun a une idée, (autre chose que les railleries sur Win ME)

Ele.

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JB
Bonjour,
Avez vous les derniers drivers pour votre webcam ? pour
votre carte mére ?, il y a des problémes connu avec les
ports USB des cartes mére à base de chipsets VIA un peu
anciens
Voila
-----Message d'origine-----
bonjour,

j'ai une webcam creative notebook webcam qui marche


parfaitement sur un pc
en W2000.
et pas du tout sur Windows ME.

j'ai tout essayé.
Elle fonctionne pendant 1/4 d'heure ensuite ou j'ai un


écran noir ou ....
elle plante le PC (msn Messenger)

qqun a une idée, (autre chose que les railleries sur Win


ME)

Ele.


.



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Eric Lecocq
un peu ancien, comment ?
PC date de 07/2001.

Upgrader le driver de carte mère, je vais essayer !

merci pour l'info.


"JB" wrote in message
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Bonjour,
Avez vous les derniers drivers pour votre webcam ? pour
votre carte mére ?, il y a des problémes connu avec les
ports USB des cartes mére à base de chipsets VIA un peu
anciens
Voila
-----Message d'origine-----
bonjour,

j'ai une webcam creative notebook webcam qui marche


parfaitement sur un pc
en W2000.
et pas du tout sur Windows ME.

j'ai tout essayé.
Elle fonctionne pendant 1/4 d'heure ensuite ou j'ai un


écran noir ou ....
elle plante le PC (msn Messenger)

qqun a une idée, (autre chose que les railleries sur Win


ME)

Ele.


.



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timisme
This camera is absolutely horrible. 3 tries and 2 calls to tech
support. System restore. Finally works and can hardly see the image.
very dark and grainy. Tech support said it could be bad hardware. I
seriously doubt it. I should have read this 1 star out of 5 review
before I plunked down $35 FOR IT. Stay away from Creative Webcam
Notebook. What a piece of crap!

Full Review
I picked up one of these at Staples recently. I chose it mainly because
it alone out of the display models seemed to offer the ability to
swivel vertically; I also figured it'd be useful for business trips and
the like.

I attempted to install it on a fairly late-model and capable machine, a
dual P4 Xeon 2GHz 1GB RAM machine running Windows XP Professional SP1.
This machine has been in use for a little less than a year now, and
functions as my home server. It's very fast and stable, and I've never
had any problems with it whatsoever.

The drivers and other software that came with the camera took three
attempts to load successfully. Let me just say at this point that I've
been a computer programmer for the past seven years or so, and I
fiddled around with PCs extensively before that. I followed the
instructions to the letter; the software was just buggy.

Finally, the camera was successfully recognized by the system. I used
the supplied configuration tool to check the image quality, and was
very disappointed. The configuration interface offers very few choices
for tweaking the image quality, which was horrible. I'm talking about
excessive fragmentation, very poor color quality and handling of normal
room lighting, the works. I was expecting much better, even from a
notebook webcam. I was barely able to distinguish the features on my
face.

Next, the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) problem began. It happened first
at random, when I was just viewing images through the camera but not
adjusting settings. It quickly escalated to the point where any time I
attempted to change any setting, I had to reboot my machine. After the
fifth time, I uninstalled the software and prayed that my machine
hadn't been permanently destabilized; luckily, everything checks out
okay.

This machine is not at fault; it's definitely the software that came
with the camera. The machine is constantly kept up to date with the
latest patches, and is firewalled and virus protected at all times. Not
only did the software crash an otherwise perfectly stable machine
(which is actually an impressive feat on Windows XP) but it was the
usual badly-designed, intrusive, can't-shut-it-off dreck that Creative
Labs always supplies for their products.
Creative Labs, in my extensive experience with them, makes awful
software but great hardware. The bad image quality of this camera came
as a shock.

My advice is to give this one a miss, unless you're looking to add that
perfect touch of blue to your home or office!