DV camera and VCR microsoft driver

[daniel]

the found new hardware wizard ask me for a ''microsoft DV
Camera and VCR'' driver for my JVC GR520U DV camera. It
would not accept the one supplied on my JVC original CD.

Any idea where I can find this driver?

thank

daniel

 

[Bob I]

These type of installs require that you follow the installation
instructions exactly. Typically you must install the drivers BEFORE you
plug anything in. As to the "It wouldn't accept.......", what was the
error message?

 

[Guest]

''Windows did not find a driver for your hardware'' or
semething similar, actually this was the standard message
for situation when the driver is not the right one!
thaks for helping
daniel

 

[daniel]

I gess you are right about the install process. It's kind
of tricky!
Here is what I am now:
Windows managed to find its driver into its own driver
folder on C drive. The driver was probably left there by
my JVC install program.

When I try to communicate either with videowave or DVD
bulider of Easy CD creator 6 I get the same application
error message; ''the instruction at ''0X00000000''
referenced memory et ''0X00000000''. The memory could not
be ''read''

thanks again

daniel

 

[Bob I]

If Windows 2000 properly sees the camera as a Removable device/drive the
problem is probably with the software install. If it didn't show up I
would do a complete uninstall, also check for hidden devices (earlier
bombed camera install attempt)in Device Manager and remove them, reboot
and then start the camera install fresh following the instructions.
Attempting to patch up/fix a bombed install just wastes your time.

 

[daniel]

Yes win2000 ''sees' it correctly in device manager.
I did uninstall videowave and reboot and reinstall it
without success. I'll di ti again and will remove easy cd
creator and see.
I would need your advice though:
Since there are 2 software reacting with the same message
and I did not find any hidden hardware in device manager
should I look in the windows registry for possible
leftover not removed by uninstall? Or is it too risky?
I've heard sometimes uninstalling and re-installing does
not bring a thrue fress install back again.
What is your opinion about it?
thanks again
daniel

 

[Bob I]

My only experience with "uninstalling and reinstalling" not getting a
true fresh install was with HP printers and there we didn't have the "HP
uninstaller" which required us to clean out the registry entries
instead(which is what the HP uninstaller does). I would also look at the
JVC web site for any thing relating to the error messages. "the
instruction at ''0X00000000''referenced memory et ''0X00000000''" error
would seem to be related to the camera rather than Windows memory.

 

[Guest]

With your help I'm getting to semething;
Nothing special on JVC web site, anyway not related to my
problem.
But I looked for other unintall hardware that may
interfere and found my creative webcam. Trying to
uninstall its driver I got .....the application Error
instantly! so it looks to be the cause.
Now any suggestion about how can I uninstall it since I
can't true add/remove pragrams?
thanks again
daniel

 

[daniel]

With your help I'm getting to semething;
Nothing special on JVC web site, anyway not related to my
problem.
But I looked for other unintall hardware that may
interfere and found my creative webcam. Trying to
uninstall its driver I got .....the application Error
instantly! so it looks to be the cause.
Now any suggestion about how can I uninstall it since I
can't true add/remove pragrams?
thanks again
daniel

 

[Bob I]

Humm, sure sounds like you pinned it down. Web cam and DV camera are not
happy sharing the software or drivers are getting confused. So, can you
remove the DV camera and software and then remove the creative webcam?

 

[daniel]

Can't get rid of this webcam driver. I always get this
error message.
any suggestions to safely remove it?

 

[Mike Brown - Process Manager]

Can't get rid of this webcam driver. I always get this
error message.
any suggestions to safely remove it?

I would try in this order:

- Disconnect both hardware items
- Install Creative Webcam driver/software
- Uninstall Creative Webcam driver/software (by installing you will get a
fresh, uncorrupted copy of the uninstaller script)
- Install JVC software/driver (again this will give you a cleaner copy to
work with for uninstall)
- Uninstall JVC software/driver
- Reinstall JVC software/driver (one last time)
- Reconnect JVC camera

 

[daniel]

Hey thanks,

I could uninstall the Creative software but not the driver.
nice try but doesn't seem to work out.
So I tried to re-install the driver again.
In the install prcess of creative webcam driver I'm asked
to overwrite the same version of the driver. I clicked
yes. It went with install and then this error message
again. i clicked OK It tried to keep going until the error
message came back again. Then the window closed!!!! so
doesn't look like I can re-install the driver
daniel