On Nov 13 2007, 3:23 am, kelcoll <kelc...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Hi, about two months ago I bought a TOSHIBA Satellite Pro A200 preinstalled
> with Vista Business. It has an inbuilt Chicony 1.3M webcam.
>
> Everything was working fine, i could use it in MSN etc. until about 12 hours
> ago. I had the laptop on sleep for a few hours and when I came back the
> webcam no longer functioned. According to MSN messenger no webcam was
> detected.
>
> I have reinstalled the webcam drivers direct from the Toshiba website
> (several times in fact) but it still isn't working.
>
> I then tried to do a system restore from a point that I knew it was working,
> however the restore failed. It only gave me the option of restoring from up
> to 24 hours previous (is this normal). The Error message was in Spanish as I
> bought the laptop in Barcelona but the jist of it was that it failed and it
> doesn't know why.
>
> If ANYONE can help me with the I would really appreciate it. I am at my wits
> end here!
>
> Yours in hope...
> --
> thanks!!!
I've got a toshiba A205 with the same chicony webcam. I've that same
problem. If the laptop go to sleep mode, when it wakes up the webcam
doesn't work, you have to reboot it. I don't know any solution, maybe
with Vista SP1
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