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I have a very expensive PC digital camera and the drivers for it only work on Win95. The company that makes this camera (Silicon Valley) went out of business in 1998 so there are no new drivers available so I can use this camera on Windows Me. Without having to resort to changing my OS back to Win95, how do I get this camera driver to think I'm using Win95? Is there some way to install Win95 drivers for my "IVision(tm) Virgo cam with PCI vid capture card" and still get it to work on my Win Me system??
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been looking for a fix for this for a long time because the image quality on this camera used to be perfect before I upgraded my OS.
Thanks,
Sonia
How much harddrive space do you have?If you have a spage gig or so you could set up a dual boot(two O/S's on one PC) system and make one of them Win 95 and thus run the camera.Then you could transfer the pics to either O/S and do whatever you needed to.
Just a thought
Jimi_l
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You probably already tried this but its worth a shot.......
Plug the camera in and turn it on/insert the disk that contains the driver for the camera/restart the computer/If the driver disk begins to autorun cancel it/Navigate to Start/settings/control panel/scanners and cameras/add new device/ Click the Have disk button and see if windows me recognizes the driver.
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I have 5 GB left of free space on my harddrive...could I clear off all these Win98 files that I seem to still have on my harddrive and copy the Win95 CD onto my system, or how would I go about doing this?
By the way, I did try the Add New Device under Scanners and Cameras and Win ME wouldnt recognize my drivers from my camera CD.
Thanks,
Sonia
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have you tried the various dialogs in Control Panel/System/Device Manager? like putting the drivers on a floppy, and telling Windows to look for the drivers there?
it seems awfully strange to me that WinME would not recognize OLD drivers..
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I also wondered about the old drivers but when i attempted to search for info about that camera google turned up 2 hits and both were off topic.
MS HCL shows nothing.
Whats the make and model of that camera again? Any part numbers? Maybe someone else made it and drivers are available under that name?
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Try here for a driver
http://www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads7/167.htmlusername = drivers
password = all
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I downloaded that driver at the driverguide site and installed it, but it still seems to make everything run the same. The contrast levels and brightness of the image are still messed up, but they ran fine using Win95.
I haven't found much when doing a search on my cam either. All I found out was that the company went out of business in 1998. I am hoping another company bought them out because these are incredible cameras. I have found a few sites that are still selling them such as this site through a different company http://www.microweb.com/kwu/desk.html
and I just finished sending them an email asking if they knew of any new drivers for this camera.
My camera is an IVision(tm)Digital PC Video Camera that comes with a PCI Video Capture Card and the original driver info said iVision(tm),Virgo PN 60-1001 R1.6By the way, in my first message, I made a mistake on the company name. It's Silicon Vision Inc.
Thanks for all your help and hopefully this other company will help me out.Sonia
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Sonia, get 'Partition Magic', create a partition just large enough for 95 + drivers,run the camera from there. Save pix to a file which both can read? Maybe??
Ed in Texas.
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