This is to help solve a problem in istalling a web cam.
2007-08-11 22:30:21 · 6 answers · asked by chips 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
If there is a blue vga socket at the back panel where you connect the monitor and it displays something on the screen, you have a videocard. It could be onboard or a discrete card. Probably the vga driver is not installed.
If all else fail in installing your webcam, try downloading and installing AMCAP:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Recording/AMCap.shtml
Works great for me!
2007-08-15 15:46:02 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have Windows XP go to start menu - Control Panel - Performance and Maintenance - System - Device Manager - Display Adapters.
This will give you basic info.
Windows isn't a fat lot of help diagnosing problems. If you have added expansion cards to your PC you can get resource conflicts because Windows insists on allocating things like memory addresses and processor interrupt priorities and you can't override this any more. Windows usually gets things right (or at least makes the best of a bad job if the PC is stuffed too full with hardware) but sometimes it just gets it wrong. The only solution then is to try moving cards around in the expansion slots and if that fails, remove some. I just had to lose the wi-fi card out of my pc because Windows kept giving my video card and tv tuner the same processor interrupt (IRQ). My pc kept crashing and was prety well unusable but Windows claimed there were no resource conflicts and the video card was working fine!
There is a free version (Sandra Lite) of a very well-regarded diagnostic program called SiSoft Sandra which will give you a lot of useful info about your video card (or anything else come to that). Only the Lite version is free btw:
http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?dir=&location=pinformation&langx=en&a=
hth
2007-08-12 06:28:27 · answer #2 · answered by Iain C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try the free Advisor from this site. Works great and have used it for year on all OS's.
2007-08-12 05:41:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right click on your desktop>Properties>Settings
>Advanced>Adapter:)
2007-08-12 05:37:45 · answer #4 · answered by ~Mommy*of*3~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this may help...
go start
run
type in dxdiag
then click display it may help
i think it is xp only
2007-08-12 05:36:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go device manager and it will be there if you have one
2007-08-12 05:44:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋