Netbook cam not working in chatroom

15 Apr 2009

I just got a acer netbook and tried to use the inbuilt cam in chatroom it lets me have the cam on but no picture appears. Can anyone help as I know sod all about them.

15 Apr 2009

Have you tried right-clicking, in chatroom, to select and adjust 'Settings'?

16 Apr 2009

checked all the settings and they are the same as my other laptop so dont understand why it wont work sad

16 Apr 2009

Perhaps you need to change the camera settings to identify the cam as a USB device? Try the different options for this and see what happens.
Sometimes this works because inbuilt cams can use different connections to the one you'd expect, and by just adjusting this you can make the cam work.

16 Apr 2009

unfortunately with a net book you get very little options to change things limited operating system and limited access to it all.

16 Apr 2009

We got one from pc world last weekend, tried it on chat saturday night, 5 mins later it was back in its box...!
Thankfully PC world changed it for a mini dell on monday, funny thing was they agreed with me that it was crap.
No good news for you, so sorry ...perhaps if you have not had it long you could do the same.

16 Apr 2009

Yeah they don't tell you that when you go to buy these things, but from all the stories I've heard from different people, it seems to me the whole netbook thing is a bit of a con.
Limited shelf-life I think.
sad

17 Apr 2009

have you plugged it in............... rolleyes

20 Apr 2009

thanks Redhotandready I'll go back to the shop and see if I can exchange it for something that does work