I bought a Sony Vaio notebook model VGN-FE790.
It came with lots of junk so naturally I formatted the hard drive and
installed a clean version of Microsoft XP Professional. I downloaded
all the drivers from Sony's web site.
However, I'm unable to install the camera driver. It doesn't recognize
the the drivers.
Sony support was not really helpful and stated some of the hardware may
not work under a clean installation.

I'm sure other people have come across this issue.
If you were able to solve it, please let me know (and don't spare on
the details :-) ).

thanks.

<jonathanztaub******.com> wrote in message
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> I bought a Sony Vaio notebook model VGN-FE790.
> It came with lots of junk so naturally I formatted the hard drive and
> installed a clean version of Microsoft XP Professional. I downloaded
> all the drivers from Sony's web site.
> However, I'm unable to install the camera driver. It doesn't recognize
> the the drivers.
> Sony support was not really helpful and stated some of the hardware
> may not work under a clean installation.
>
> I'm sure other people have come across this issue.
> If you were able to solve it, please let me know (and don't spare on
> the details :-) ).

Should be a piece of cake. Restore with all of the crap back on it and
look under the Device Manager for the camera, look under the properties
and grab all of the drivers. Although finding the inf file will take
some searching. Or search under the registry and make your own inf file.

--
Bill

Thanks.

I also did further research and there appears to be a stream.sys file
which may be related to the problem.
As I did this and the step you advised (while rebooting
uninstalling/installing) it finally works.
I don't know what exactly fixed it and don't intend to find out. ;-)
Who knows if it'll work again.

thanks very much for your suggestion.
It appears that whatever you download from Sony's web site is not
identical to whatever is on the restore CDs.
Bad software quality control in my opinion.

Finally got it to work.

:-)

<jonathanztaub******.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks.
>
> I also did further research and there appears to be a stream.sys file
> which may be related to the problem.
> As I did this and the step you advised (while rebooting
> uninstalling/installing) it finally works.
> I don't know what exactly fixed it and don't intend to find out. ;-)
> Who knows if it'll work again.
>
> thanks very much for your suggestion.
> It appears that whatever you download from Sony's web site is not
> identical to whatever is on the restore CDs.
> Bad software quality control in my opinion.
>
> Finally got it to work.
>
> :-)
>
Now that you have a working system to your liking burn a clone or copy of it
onto CD's or an external drive so you won't have to go through the entire
process next time.

External USB drives are good for this if your motherboard BIOS supports
booting from an external USB source. Always good to try booting from the
backup after first making one just to be sure everything got transferred.

jonathanztaub******.com wrote:
> I bought a Sony Vaio notebook model VGN-FE790.
> It came with lots of junk so naturally I formatted the hard drive and
> installed a clean version of Microsoft XP Professional. I downloaded
> all the drivers from Sony's web site.
> However, I'm unable to install the camera driver. It doesn't recognize
> the the drivers.
> Sony support was not really helpful and stated some of the hardware may
> not work under a clean installation.
>
> I'm sure other people have come across this issue.
> If you were able to solve it, please let me know (and don't spare on
> the details :-) ).
>
> thanks.
>

"Clean install" on Vaio noteooks is the kiss of death unless one
researches the proprietary Sony applications and libraries that are
required for complete hardware functionality, as you have discovered
with the camera installation. These used to be available for individual
installation from the recovery disk set on most, but not all, models.

Q

"Quaoar" <quaoar@marcabfleet.com> wrote in message
news:x6udnQI4TYbynv_YnZ2dnUVZ_oydnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> jonathanztaub******.com wrote:
>> I bought a Sony Vaio notebook model VGN-FE790.
>> It came with lots of junk so naturally I formatted the hard drive and
>> installed a clean version of Microsoft XP Professional. I downloaded
>> all the drivers from Sony's web site.
>> However, I'm unable to install the camera driver. It doesn't recognize
>> the the drivers.
>> Sony support was not really helpful and stated some of the hardware may
>> not work under a clean installation.
>>
>> I'm sure other people have come across this issue.
>> If you were able to solve it, please let me know (and don't spare on
>> the details :-) ).
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>
> "Clean install" on Vaio noteooks is the kiss of death unless one
> researches the proprietary Sony applications and libraries that are
> required for complete hardware functionality, as you have discovered with
> the camera installation. These used to be available for individual
> installation from the recovery disk set on most, but not all, models.
>
> Q

I had the very same problem and whenever I have a problem I go to the
micropctalk.com website .. Here is where they discuss one of the problems
with the camera..

http://www.micropctalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10

Here are many more problems and solutions regarding the camera.

http://www.micropctalk.com/forums/se...?searchid=6137