Replacement webcam dies within minutes

Discussion in 'Laptop Hardware' started by morven, Aug 13, 2010.

  1. morven

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    The webcam on my A150 stopped working. Searching including here suggested that buying a new webcam board on ebay and installing it was the easiest fix.

    Well, I did that. Booted the system and Windows told me it found a new USB Crystal Eye camera. I opened a utility to view the camera and it worked -- for a few seconds. Then the image froze. Trying to close and re-open the software produced a message that it couldn't connect and perhaps some other program had it locked.

    I rebooted and now the webcam is missing from the system again; it's not visible in Device Manager. Same problem as with the previous cam.

    Is this 'give up and buy an external webcam' time?
     
    morven, Aug 13, 2010
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