spacecam 120 working on messenger (via xp)

[monkeyman114]

hi,

I have a spacecam 120 (trust) that I am trying to set up through windows xp on messenger. I have used it several times on different systems which have all be fine, however this time (on an athalon 2700, geforce2 64mb, nvidia motherboard, 512 ddr ram) when I set up the audio/visual wizard I simply get a blank box, follwed by the camera switching on and off, creating a green box in the wizard

I've changed drivers, upgraded, formatted all to no avail...to be honest its just p*****g me off now

anybody got any ideas?

thanks,

daniel

[PvtSniper]

hmm have u tried uninstall/reinstall of messenger, looks like it from your post, sounds like usb because you say your camera is switching on and off 99.9% of the time this is a usb problem it's down to power management which you should disable if that doesn't work, you could try different usb port on the pc.

=ok power management=
if you have my computer icon on your desktop right click it and click properties, you should then get system properties on screen, the go to hardware, and click device manager, in here you will have a list of items, there are two you need to disable pm on

firstly the spacecam, i dont have one personally, so don't know where you'd find this exactly, but a little time and common sence (it's not going to be in keyboards lol) and you should find it, once you see it, double click it to open it's window, if it the has power management, go here and if it has a tick box saying "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" untick it, that's pm on the cam disabled, next you need to do it on usb

in device manager itself you'll have universal serial bus controllers, click the + to expand it unless it is so allready, then you should have 1 or more "usb root hub"s basically do same for each of these that have that feature and pm is now disabled, pm does cause most problems power wise of turning things on and off, once you've done that windows should be able to detect the cam correctly and pressume messenger is installed correctly you should be fine, i not gimme a shout, hope this helps, sniper!