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usnavy94

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Hey I wondering if you can help, I am trying to download software for my digital camara vivitar vivicam 55 to my computer and it will down load up to the point I go to the camara to download pictures and it tells me there is a connection problem that driver software not working because I have Vista home premium edition and it won't allow my driversoft to work and is there anyway around that?

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Hi usnavy,

As far as I know, Vivitar went out of business a while ago and never made Vista drivers - the link supplied above , may work on vista, I haven't tried.

I have a vivicam. I plugged it in via usb and pressed the SET button on the back of the camera.

Vista loaded it's own drivers - works fine - but nothing happened till pressing that SET button.

You may like to try uninstalling those drivers and letting Vista install it's own.

Hope it helps

SIW2
 

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Hi,

The drivers are included in Vista and are on your Hard drive now, waiting for a camera to be attached. Vista won't know you want it to install the drivers until you press the SET button.

That's how it worked for me.

SIW2
 

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Often Windows will have a list of hardwares and have some generic drivers onhand. That's probably why it worked for you. But it's worth a try since the company went under.
 

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They are indeed generic drivers - designed to work with as many brands and models as possible.

The strange thing was Vista didn't recognise anything was attached at all until pressing that SET button.

Didn't figure that out immediately , and am not surprised other people don't realise it.

Hope it works for usnavy

SIW2:D
 

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    gigabyte b365m ds3h
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Once you pressed the set button Windows apparently detected a new hardware and immediately installed(or simply expanded and made active) one of the archived drivers onhand.

The generic drivers go more by type rather then any brand or model when those are used simply to make something work that wouldn't otherwise be available.

Hopefully the one found at the link earlier will work out since that was specific for that model.
 

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Yes of course that was when new hardware was detected and the generic drivers were installed.

As I said , the drivers on the link you kindly found for usnavy might work on Vista - they might even provide extra functions.

When I suggested he uninstall those drivers, obviously I was referring to the drivers he already had installed - not the ones you suggested he try.


SIW2
 

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    gigabyte b365m ds3h
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    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
On my vivicam , it is a SET button and it is on the back of the camera. I do not have a start button.

If you cannot get it to work for your particular model , you may like to try the drivers from the link Night Hawk provided.

SIW2
 

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    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
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    intel i5-8400
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    gigabyte b365m ds3h
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    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
Hi ,

First, I suggest going into Device Manager, uninstalling the camera drivers you have (as they don't work) , and restarting your pc.

Then , if that's the only button you have, try pressing it

SIW2
 

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Night Hawk is the guy who posted the link for drivers that might work on Vista. If you look at the first page of this thread, you will see his posts.

SIW2
 

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The suggestion to right click on any Vivitar item in the device manager and choosing the uninstall option made by SIW2 would have been the best move. Once the system is restarted afterwards and you press the button Windows will then be detecting a new device added onto the system provided support was still seen.

That has to be one of the old models since the information for a June 2006 availability at a 3rd party site shows the last Twain driver was seen in Jan. 2003. VIVITAR VIVICAM 55 TWAIN DRIVER WINDOWS 98 ME 2000 XP - Download Drivers Free

That turned out to be a dead link at this point where going for something that indicates Vista ready or Vista compatible is the only real option if you don't get anywhere with the generic drivers already included in Windows.
 

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Did all that and it tells mw it installed success, but I click on the program it comes up a with aconnection not reading at driver or usb?
 

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Take a look in the device manager to see if you find any vivitar items there. Take notice of anything with a yellow on it. You would right click on it to choose the update driver option and see if Windows can install it automatically.

You may see something listed on "other devices" instead where you right click on it and select the browse to option to see if Windows will see and install the driver you hightlight from the folder you see created or unpack the download from the first link to.

The thing to remember here is you are dealing with an old model from a company no longer in business. Sometimes you can get Vista to take some legacy drivers and make them work while others simply won't. At least you made some progress since Windows is naming something there.
 

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    Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
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    Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
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    MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
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    Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
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    Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
    Hard Drives
    WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
    WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
    External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
    External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
    PSU
    Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
    Case
    Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
    Keyboard
    AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
    Mouse
    MSI Interceptor D200
    Internet Speed
    30mbps upgrade
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