USB webcam question

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I was setting up an old trusty webcam I have and I get an unusal thing happening. I've loaded the drivers for the camera and Wiindows XP can operate it just fine, but everytime I plug it in I get the "found new hardware" wizard. It tries to search for drivers but fails and tells me that setup cannot install the deivce. I click finsh and it's gone. I can still access my webcam from My Computer like I always have and everything seems normal. When I looked under device manager it lists both my webcam and an unkniwn device. I don't knwo what this unknown device could possibly be, it's only there when my webcam is plugged in. Anyone able to help?

Here's the device instance ID from the properties dialog of the unknown device:
SW\{70BC06E0-5666-11D3-A184-00105AEF9F33}\GLOBAL

It's on location 0 according to the first properties tab.

By the way the camera is an Intel USB CS330 webcam. It's really old but has always done well for what little i use it for.
 
Just a guess, but is there a mic built into the webcam? Mine has a mic built in and it has weirded out several times due to the mic counting as a separate device.
 
no mic. just a basic webcam with a button to snap photos that hasn't worked since Windows 9x. XP's never detected it before though. I've had this webcam for about 6 years now and it's ran on XP for 4 of those.
 
I've got teh same webcam. Its an awesome cam, lasting me forever.

hehehe

Try removing all the device drivers and then plug the camera back in. Let the Plug N Play take care of the rest (works for me in XP)
 
I've already tried the uninstall/reinstall thing.

As far as Plug'n'Play goes, The XP bundled WIA driver only let me take 320x240 pics. The Intel driver let me take full 640x480. I guess this unknown device is no big deal, I'll just ingore it for the time being.

Ryan
 
I believe he meant delete any devices associated with the webcam whether they are working or not. You may need to have the webcam plugged in to see the working ones.
I suggest rebooting after and then hopefully the drivers will re-install once and its job done.

The situation could be a bit muddier if you have installed a driver that works but isnt using the XP driver installer. This sounds like the case as it is installed and working but still asks for the driver.

If you can never get the webcam to install properly from the install driver prompts, it is likely you will have to live with it unless you can find a good XP driver for it.
 
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