Toshiba Satellite A 215 - Webcam Doesn't Work

just had a look on the toshiba website and there are no win 7 64 bit drivers for your webcam....which is kind of wierd and might explain why your camera doesn't work....there is however a winvista 64 bit driver which might work
go here for driver

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2060016&rpn=PSLD0U&modelFilter=L355-S7817&selCategory=2756709&selFamily=1073768663

Click webcam right click exit.

Restart webcam in msn.

If no joy, go to control panel webcam remove/reinstall.

update the program ...if the webcam works fine on other IM programs ..it means that the msn is the problem ...

if you have the webcam center opened along with with msn then it wont work on either one of them.
you can try these steps tp check if it works for you or not.

1)look for the web cam center system tray icon and right click on it if its there and select exit

and as u said u cant see you self in web cam console --- in webcam console you can only see your self under the doodling tab and only of your webcam is working at that i.e

either you have the webcam center opened or any other messenger or software which turns on your cam then only ull be able to view your cam in webcam console alongside.

Hi,
I have a toshiba satellite too. I had the same problem when i had just bought my laptop. It seems like it is a software or driver problem, nothing wrong with the hardware. Do this once or twice and this problem wont reoccur, it hasn't for me again. Go to device manager and disable the webcam, restart the computer then go back and enable it. Now the webcam will for fine with all instant messengers. I remember donig this few times when my laptop was new. Now its been over a year and this problem hasnot occured again. I hope this helps you too or your friend.
chandan tangbe.

go to control panel. go to user account and turn off the user account control. uninstall/reinstall the driver of your chicony webcam. check for the driver on this link:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp?moid=1854866&rpn=PSU30U&ct=DL&BV_SessionID=@@@@1765667884.1221546594@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadefehikfehcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0

i hope this helps.

Ok, a few questions for you first...

1. Has the cam ever worked?
2. Does it work in any other software?
3. Make and model of webcam.

Let me know. Thx! =)

The type of pc is not as important as the type of webcam at this point. The story also needs more details.

If you had a Logtec webcam and at first it only worked with its custom made software, what did you do to make it work with MSN?
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Based of the info provided, I would
1. uninstall all cam software while the cam is unpluged,

2. Reboot the pc. Then plug the cam in.

3. When windows detects the cam, it will ask for drivers, do not click on search on windows update website, click the option to choose from a specific location and then browse to the cd provided.

4. Try and load msn now. The msn website or the cam company sometimes have a patch to make the cam and the messenger work together. I would check the cam website before looking around the microsoft site.

I'm using a Toshiba satellite notebook A200, which I faced the same problem like you saying my built- in webcam cannot operate after I clicked on the drop down list from the windows live messenger to have a webcam conversation. Another program is running the webcam at startup. That program is called Camera Assistant Software which is the conflicting software. Therefore I closed this software and I'm able to use my webcam again in my webcam conversation in windows live messenger. I hope this information will help you.Good Luck!