Acer Orbicam

[Barry]

Hi
Has anyone got an Acer Aspire 5100 with the built in orbicam and managed to
get it working with Vista Home Premium??

Have tried all the upgrade drivers and applications from the Acer website to
no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Markus]

Hi
Has anyone got an Acer Aspire 5100 with the built in orbicam and managed
to get it working with Vista Home Premium??

Have tried all the upgrade drivers and applications from the Acer website
to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

That is hard to believe. My Acer Aspire 5100 was delivered with Vista
preinstalled and even after a manual reinstall of windows the cam worked
without any problem, even with the built in MS usb2.0 camera driver .
Perhaps broken hardware on your end?

 

[Guest]

we have that our orbicam does not work when we have photos saved

 

[Guest]

Thought i had the same problem, as the orbicam application did not work after
vista upgrade. However the actual camera does work with Windows Live
Messenger & Skype which is ok for me. Not sure how this can help but thought
I would share.

 

[StephenB]

Thought i had the same problem, as the orbicam application did not work after
vista upgrade. However the actual camera does work with Windows Live
Messenger & Skype which is ok for me. Not sure how this can help but thought
I would share.

That's the same situation I'm in with an Aspire 5670. Not a big deal for me,
though, so I haven't pursued the latest Acer patches.
-steve

 

[koze]

Place a support request at the acer website as I did, the control for the
webcam is working the manegement console with the settings will not start.

A few more support requests may let them act a bit quicker.

Ko

 

[peter]

Acer 9300 here and running the Bison drivers ver 6.32.0.4.
Camera works under Vista............but I had to download the drivers from
Acer and it took 3 tries to get them to work.
I uninstalled the Camera and the drivers each time and finally something
clicked.
peter

 

[ANDY BENAGLIA]

Had exactely the same problem with my Acer9420. Camera light goes but no
image shown. With Skype and Messenger works great, it's a driver problem and
waiting for a fix.

Andy

 

[krueger]

My camera worked before i installed vista but then when i did my camera
stopped working the progrma comes up but my camera light does not turn on and
any help would be apprecatied

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The Versiontracker listing for drivers for this camera list Vista drivers.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/129737

 

[denise]

righ i hve taken my picture from the pcture file and now them cam goes on but
a grey screen anyone help me please by removing them pictures from the file
it does actually go on the orbicam but ow it is blank

 

[McDoogie]

I've been struggling with Acer OrbiCam for over a year. Cannot adjust it
with Acer software so resort to Windows Live Instant Messenger which permits
minimal adjustment. In Instant Messenger however if I try to use the
Advanced Settings panel everything shuts down ! Acer now finally admit that
the Cam is to be used/intended for still photo clips only !!!...You belive
that garbage folks ? If one wants to use it for Video or as a Instant
Messenger Cam then Acer advise that we use 3rd. party software...which they
will not support. Anyone know of software other than Microsoft IM that we
can use to adjust the Cam settings ?...Thanks: Doug.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I've been struggling with Acer OrbiCam for over a year. Cannot adjust it
with Acer software so resort to Windows Live Instant Messenger which
permits
minimal adjustment. In Instant Messenger however if I try to use the
Advanced Settings panel everything shuts down ! Acer now finally admit
that
the Cam is to be used/intended for still photo clips only !!!...You belive
that garbage folks ? If one wants to use it for Video or as a Instant
Messenger Cam then Acer advise that we use 3rd. party software...which
they
will not support. Anyone know of software other than Microsoft IM that we
can use to adjust the Cam settings ?...Thanks: Doug.

Acer Orbicam is a generic name that Acer uses for many different webcams
from many different manufacturers. All the Acer computers I've tested that
came with Vista and have a built in webcam work fine. Some older models that
came with XP don't work as well. Did your computer come with Vista? What is
the model number?

 

[DL]

maybe acer support or their groups know