Digital Camera

[DIRIMI]

I m trying to connect my digital camera to my pc, but when trying to acquire photos from the camera it says failed to connect to camera. I have installed the drivers for camera, but can't get to download photos from camera please help! :bawling:

[modo]

You need to give us a lot more info than that mate.
What`s your PC specs?
How are you making the connection?? (Serial/parrallel/USB/Firewire)??
What make is your camera?
Have you installed drivers and software??
Gve us a clue :D

[DIRIMI]

computer specs: OS- windows XP home edtion, AMD 3000+ processor, 2.1Ghz, 1Gb of RAM, Fujitsu, free space on C 137Gb. Digital camera- PrakticaDCZ 6VR 6mega pixel, PC cam -USB. I am connecting via USB cable. I have installed the driver for the camerea as well. When connected to my PC, then when i acquire the photos from the camera, it comes up with message "failed to connec to camere". restart the program, I de-installed the drivers and reinstalled it, and restarted the PC, but still can't acquire photos from the camera. Also when I checked under printer and other hardware (scnners & cameras)under control panel, it only shows the scanner that I have but not the camera. does it supposed to show camera as well? I think it is not recognising as a hardware.Hope this info helps, please help
my pc has usb2.0 and the camera has usb 1.1 interface, could this be the problem?? please help
me :bawling:

[modo]

In Device manager your camera should show as a camera or possibly a removable storage device. Your PC`s USB2 should be backward-compatible with the USB 1.
What kind of memory is in the camera?? (flash, MMC etc). have you tried using a card reader?
I can only suggest uninstalling completely any drivers and editing software that you installed with the cam, the plugging it in and letting Windows try and find it

[modo]

Just found this.... (good old Google)

http://forums.windrivers.com/showpost.php?p=491814&postcount=11

[DIRIMI]

Thanks mate for your help. :) :cheers: memory card for camera is SD. What I did was de-installed the software, and then turned the dial in camera to "PC", selected - mass storage, then plugged one end USB into camera, then plugged the other end of cable into my PC -USB port -the windows detected the hardware and it came up as removable drive. I think the problem was with the software- CD that came with the camera.

It is now working OK.

Although my camera problem is fixed, I have another problem- when I print from my printer- it prints blank pages out. the printer is LEXMARK Z600 series. It was working fine before. But when I disconnected all the cables to tidy up my PC desk and connected the printer back it did not work. I checked the cartridges - OK, checked the cables-OK, deinstalled the drivers- then reinstalled it. But still it prints out blank pages. I have tried everything, but don't know what to do? please help!