Camera not found connected to USB

[Confused]

Hi... My camera is connected to the computer's USB. It
has always worked with no problems. Yesterday I connected
my camera and it is not recognizing it.... it's telling me
the camera can not be found. I am running windows xp,
sp1. I looked in the device manager... everything looks
fine. Any ideas what may be wrong? It would be most
helpful. Thanks!

 

[Papa]

Was your camera turned on? Camera battery OK?

 

[Confused]

Sigh... of course it was. And I had changed the battery
too...

 

[R. McCarty]

USB devices can sometimes be lost, due to "Phantoms"
Plugging in a USB device to a different USB channel, can
result in a device not being re-enumerated. Open Device
Manager (System, Hardware) in Control Panel. Click View
tic (check) option "Show Hidden Devices". Expand the
"Imaging Devices" category by clicking the +. Check the
list for your camera, but shown slightly grayed out. If
found Right click and choose Uninstall. Reboot your PC
and then Re-connect the camera. XP should redetect &
load necessary drivers.

 

[Papa]

Well, if you read very many posts, you will see how often such an obvious
thing is overlooked. Perhaps you plugged the camera into a USB 1.0 port
instead of a USB 2.0 port. Some computers have both.

By the way, using your real email address in NG posts will invite spam into
your inbox.

 

[Confused]

I did everything up to and including 'Show Hidden
Devices'. However, there wasn't an "Imaging Devices"
category. I opened all the categories that were listed...
Nothing was grayed out... and nowhere did I see my
camera. :-(

 

[Confused]

I did some IT work for a while, so I know that things like
that happen... you are right. Thanks.