Guest noob Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 I had a webcam installed in usb1(webcam), when I unplug and plug in to usb2, it recongise as a new device. hence i got 'webcam #2'. I uninstall 'webcam #2' from usb2 and plug it back to usb1 but it does not show as 'webcam', instead, I get 'webcam #2' again using the usb1. I tried all others usb port, but seem that all port gave me 'webcam #2'. Seem like my previous 'webcam' is 'lost' How to get it back and remove 'webcam', uninstall doesnt help. OS : Win XP Home -- computer idiot
Guest smlunatick Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: How to remove 'Lost' hardware On Sep 14, 7:44 am, noob <n...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I had a webcam installed in usb1(webcam), when I unplug and plug in to usb2, > it recongise as a new device. hence i got 'webcam #2'. I uninstall 'webcam > #2' from usb2 and plug it back to usb1 but it does not show as 'webcam', > instead, I get 'webcam #2' again using the usb1. I tried all others usb port, > but seem that all port gave me 'webcam #2'. Seem like my previous 'webcam' is > 'lost' > > How to get it back and remove 'webcam', uninstall doesnt help. > > OS : Win XP Home > -- > computer idiot This is the major draw-back of the Plug and Play (Pray) system in Windows XP. The problem is "really" with the poorly written driver. As far as I know, your can not "easily" revert back to webcam. Webcam #2 "seems" to the default setting now for your system.
Guest noob Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: How to remove 'Lost' hardware "smlunatick" wrote: > On Sep 14, 7:44 am, noob <n...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > I had a webcam installed in usb1(webcam), when I unplug and plug in to usb2, > > it recongise as a new device. hence i got 'webcam #2'. I uninstall 'webcam > > #2' from usb2 and plug it back to usb1 but it does not show as 'webcam', > > instead, I get 'webcam #2' again using the usb1. I tried all others usb port, > > but seem that all port gave me 'webcam #2'. Seem like my previous 'webcam' is > > 'lost' > > > > How to get it back and remove 'webcam', uninstall doesnt help. > > > > OS : Win XP Home > > -- > > computer idiot > > This is the major draw-back of the Plug and Play (Pray) system in > Windows XP. The problem is "really" with the poorly written driver. > As far as I know, your can not "easily" revert back to webcam. Webcam > #2 "seems" to the default setting now for your system. > > LOL, thats a good one. Now I just lost another. '#2' seems lost. I got a '#3' after rebooting. Any expert to explain the strange behaviour? What could it be that causes that? The webcam is working fine with my Vista Home Premium. I mean, it's still working fine with XP except that it keep getting 'lost' after I unplug and plug it back in again.
Guest noob Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 RE: How to remove 'Lost' hardware Anyone can help or do I need to reformat my harddisk to get everything to the normal state. Or is it the hardware issue? -- computer idiot
Guest smlunatick Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Re: How to remove 'Lost' hardware On Sep 16, 12:10 am, noob <n...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Anyone can help or do I need to reformat my harddisk to get everything to the > normal state. Or is it the hardware issue? > -- > computer idiot If the "components" are working and the only problem is the number (#) added to the device, I would not consider a "re-format" yet. The device(s) will work correctly.
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