Tutorial on solving laptop camera driver installation problems:

First, uninstall your original program uninstallation method: right-click "My Computer" - "Properties" - "Hardware" - "Device Manager" Or just press Ctrl+F1, then open the "Universal Serial Bus Controller" and delete the "Usb Root Hub" below.

There is also the option of opening "Add and Remove Programs" in the "Control Panel" and uninstalling any camera applications such as vm301.

2. Then restart, and after the restart it will Find new hardware, do not choose automatic installation at this time, then click "Next", then check "Search floppy disk, CD rom", and remove all other hooks. And put the CD in, do not install the driver from the CD. Let the system search automatically. This will allow the installation to be successful.

The reason why the driver is not easy to install

1. There are many popular versions of Vimicro camera drivers on the market, and many users have residual errors during the installation and uninstallation of the driver. Junk files are in the system registry, making it difficult to install the subsequent driver updates; 2. There is currently a clone operating system on the market that integrates the old version of Vimicro and the WHQL driver. When the user installs the newly purchased The camera cannot work properly after updating the latest driver;

Method 1, automatic uninstall method

Step 1: Click Uninstall of the corresponding driver in the start menu Uninstall, (it is possible that the function of Uninstall has been destroyed, so you can uninstall it by installing a new driver. The system will uninstall the old driver first, which can also achieve the purpose.)

Step 2. In the new driver Before installing the driver, select the following corresponding executable files in the attachment: FOR_XP_ME_98.EXE for Windows XP/ME/98 FOR_Win2K.EXE for Windows 2000 (Note: This tool requires that the default path of the system is the C drive to be valid. In Windows If an error dialog box appears under the ME/98 operating system, it means that the system is clean and this tool will not harm the installed driver)

Step 3. Install the new driver

Method 2. Manual uninstall method

Step 1. Go to My Computer-Tools-FileIn Folder Options-View, select Hidden Files and Folders as "Select All Files and Folders" and then go to the C:\Windows\inf folder and copy all OEM files (such as oem0.inf, oem0.pnf; oem1.inf, oem1.pnf...) cut and transfer to another directory to save or manually delete the oem file corresponding to the camera

Step 2. After completing the above steps, insert the USB camera, and the computer will find New hardware and driver installation information pops up, select Cancel, then right-click My Computer, select Properties, in the pop-up system properties interface, enter System Properties-Hardware-Device Manager and right-click PC CAMERA with an exclamation mark Uninstall;

Step 3: Unplug the camera and start installing the new driver

For the second phenomenon above

Step 1. . The clone operating system stores the camera driver in the C:\Windows\Driver\Camera\301P folder by default. When you click the new camera driver CD to install, the system will not prompt that the camera driver already exists and uninstall the driver. , please find this folder and delete it;

Step 2: First install the new camera driver, then plug in the camera to load the hardware. After the installation is completed, restart the computer and it can be used normally;

Step 3. There is no need to repeat the above two steps. Simply click on the new CD to install the latest driver. After plugging in the camera, the system will detect the new hardware and automatically complete the hardware driver loading;

Step 4 , enter the device manager, you can see that the image processing device has been successfully installed, but when you open "AMCAP" to preview the image, you will be unable to preview, white screen, black screen phenomenon;

Step 5. Right-click the mouse on the "Vimicro USB PC Camera (ZC0301PL)" of the image processing device to update the driver. When the dialog box appears, select "Install from the list or specify a location

Step 6: Select Next and select "Don't Search" to enter the "Install from Floppy Disk" interface.

Step 7: Click Browse and point the path to the driver CD directory or "usbvm31b.inf" under the latest driver directory

Step 8: Keep clicking "Next" to complete the driver installation< /p>