And it's not mine, so this'll be by proxy through proxy.
My girlfriend bought herself a new laptop after her old one shat out its own hardware. Trouble now is that the webcam doesn't seem to want to work, ever, through MSN Messenger. She's configured it through the 'Audio and Video setup' portion of the program, but it doesn't actually do anything. Her webcam is completely visible to me, in that I can see she has one by her display. The problem is that when I do click it, it'll load up for maybe two, three seconds, then shut itself off automatically before an advertisement even loads up, saying that it was denied.
I'm trying to help her get it fixed but I can't find any actual working solutions to this at all so far. She lives a few hours away, and webcam was really the only way we got to see each other frequently, so we'd love to hear a solution for all of this.
Installed proper drivers?
No driver's to install. That I'm aware of, anyway. The laptop didn't come with a CD to install driver's related to anything at all, let alone the webcam. Would there be other drivers that might fix it?
Dont use other drivers than delivered by the manufacturer.
Also depends on your operating system wheter you need them
Or not.
What OS is she using?
Whats the brand and type of the webcam?
Can she see herself in the preview screen in the audio/video setup wizard in MSN?
Windows 7 (Brand new laptop mind you)
Uh . . . I assume the same brand as the laptop, which I can't fucking remember right now. She's off eating dinner so I'll find out when she's back.
Yes, but she can't start it up for others to view without it doing as I said it does.
[editline]30th November 2010[/editline]
Sony Vaio.
Ok sounds more like a connection problem rather than webcam. If she can see herself locally the cam and drivers are fine. I think you should search the problem at programs or windows features blocking it, possibly a firewall. Get her to disable those and try again.
That'll take a bit then, seeing as I'll need to talk her through it. Thanks so far.
[QUOTE=Exploits;26421617]That'll take a bit then, seeing as I'll need to talk her through it. Thanks so far.[/QUOTE]
Instead of talking her through you could have her install Teamviewer, things will be smooth sailing then.
[QUOTE=Nekrietns;26428633]Instead of talking her through you could have her install Teamviewer, things will be smooth sailing then.[/QUOTE]
Most likely teamviewer will be blocked aswel, if its third party software that blocks connections.
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