Minolta Dimage Xt not working on Win XP

[Ryan Perry]

Dear newsgroup,

I'm in need of help with a brand new Minolta Dimage Xt
camera that will not work on my 6month old IBM T40 Laptop
running XP. When I connect, it trys to install new
hardware but cannot find a driver and wants me to find a
location or put in a cd, neither of which I have b/c
Minolta does not provide these on cd or on the web. So,
after cancelling out of New Hardware Install wizard, my
device manager shows a big yellow exclamation point on
the USB device, and my camera just stalls waiting for it
to connect to the laptop. Reboot.

I've tested 3 other machines (desktops, not laptops), and
XP finds, installs, and starts the scanner/camera wizard
with no problems in about 10 seconds! Weird, but all I
can tell is that when IBM loaded this laptop with XP,
they didn't load the minolta xp digital camera driver.

Minolta said the camera should work fine and offers NO
drivers for XP, only 98/95.

What should I do?

Thank you,

Ryan

 

[Yves Alarie]

Nothing wrong on the Minolta side here and there is no such thing as a
specific driver for this camera on XP and as you found other computers will
recognize the camera with no problem. Getting the yellow exclamation point
means that the USB port is not working properly, so I would use the trouble
shooter available there to try to resolve the problem or contact IBM.
I don't have the Xt, I have the A1, and it works fine on my laptop (Toshiba)
or desktop (home built) so I suspect the problem is a faulty USB port on
your laptop.

 

[Bill Garland]

I have the same setup as you. The USB ports on my T40 are working
just fine because they work with a variety of devices, including a
PDA, an external hard drive and a variety of scanners. HOwever, the
new Dimage xt that I bought today will not link to the T40. I cannot
get it to link to a Vaio running Win 98 either even though I instaled
the drivers on the supplied CD.

I am stumped.

Bill

 

[Bill Garland]

Just a quick followup. I fiddled with rebooting with camera connected
and on, etc. At one point my anti-virus software failed to initialize
and gave me a warning. Ah ha! I had my anti-virus software set to
check all attached drives. I changes that to just check C:, D:, etc
(ie my normal drives). Voila! The camera USB drive was instantly
recognized. This is with an IBM T40 and Windows XP but I suspect you
would get the same problem with any system if the anti-virus software
was getting in the way. Can't blame, it, it was just doing its job.
Wish it had alerted me though.

Bill