Acer Laptop Camera Driver Download
Jeremias Resendez
There are two alt keys on the keyboard. If you look at the bottom row of keyboard you can see the one on the left side of space bar and the other on the right side of space bar. The alt key on the right side will be looking like alt, alt gr or alt car. Turn off the computer. Hold the alt key on the left and tap f10 continuously. It will go to repair mode. It will show you chose an option, continue, troubleshoot. If it is not going to repair mode, turn off the computer. Turn on the computer. Hold the right alt key ( alt gr or alt car or alt ) and then tap f10 continuously. It will go to chose an option continue and troubleshoot..
Note: You can also go to chose an option , continue , troubleshoot by holding the alt key + tapping f10 or alt gr + tapping f10 on the keyboard while turning on the computer. Once you see the troubleshoot option, you can stop tapping the f10 and stop holding the alt key. Then you can try the keep my files and remove everything ( just remove by files and fully clean the drive ) by following the steps which was mentioned above.
Typically that is caused by a problem with the underlying USB port that connects the camera to the motherboard. Sometimes a restart will fix it, sometimes doing Windows Updates fixes it, sometimes it's fixed by reinstalling the USB host drivers and sometimes it fixes itself via magic. I think it's a bug Microsoft introduced in the HAL quite some time ago that only shows up occasionally, but haven't been able to pin it down closer. It seems to affect most newer systems, not just Acer, and can present as camera problems, Bluetooth problems, WiFi problems, etc..
You can scan for driver updates automatically and install them manually with the free version of the Acer Camera Driver Update Utility, or complete all necessary driver updates automatically using the premium version.
Click the Update button next to your driver. The correct version will be downloaded and installed automatically. Or, you can click the Update All button at the bottom to automatically download and install the correct version of all the drivers that are missing or out-of-date on your system.
To find the latest driver, including Windows 11 drivers, choose from our list of most popular Acer Camera downloads or search our driver archive for the driver that fits your specific Acer camera model and your PC's operating system.
After downloading your driver update, you will need to install it. Driver updates come in a variety of file formats with different file extensions. For example, you may have downloaded an EXE, INF, ZIP, or SYS file. Each file type has a slightly different installation procedure to follow. Visit our Driver Support Page to watch helpful step-by-step videos on how to install drivers based on their file extension.
I know some similar question has been posted ( -camera-access) but the solution posted on this old thread doesn't work with me. I think this old thread is related to an Asus laptop (with Control Center) but I have an Acer.
Even if it was activated, the camera should work. In the panel "PrivateLife / Audio and Video Protection / Webcam protection", I have authorized all relevant softwares to access to my camera : "Windows Camera", "Firefox", "Microsoft Teams", etc..
The root cause of the camera error 0xA00F4244 is often linked to issues with the camera driver. If this driver is outdated or corrupted, it might not effectively communicate with the hardware, leading to this error. Try updating the camera driver.
However, it seems that for my laptop, there is no specific driver released by the manufacturer. I have ran into forums that say that for my laptop model, the device driver is ran by my Windows operating system. However I have the latest update of Windows correctly installed AFAIK (Windows 11 Version 23H2) so I don't know why it doesn't work properly.
As I thought, there seem to be no driver for my camera integrated to the laptop. I just decided to buy a peripheral webcam that can be connected through USB. The new camera does work when I use the Windows "Camera" application.
However, when I use MS Teams, the webcamera bugs. More precisely, when a reunion is launched, the webcam is connected, then it disconnect, then it connects again, etc... , with 1 or 2 seconds between each connection/disconnection.
1) Check Camera Access Settings: Make sure the camera app is turned on. Press Win+I (Windows key and I key) at the same time to open Settings Window. Click Privacy. Click Camera in the left pane. If it is off, turn it on. In Windows 11, press the Windows key and I simultaneously to open the Settings Window. Select Privacy & security on the left panel, then click Camera under the App permission on the right. Check if Camera access is toggled on.
4)Reset Camera App: You can try resetting the camera app. Press the Windows key + I to start the Settings app, then click on Apps from the left pane and select Installed apps from the right. Look for the Camera app in the list, click on its three points button and select Advanced options. Now scroll down until you find the Reset section, then click on the Repair button.
If the Webcam Protection is stopped and the product is updated, the bdprivmon.sys driver should not be in memory already, so there should be no component to block the access to the webcam. Furthermore, we did not see any case on which the driver to make the device dissapear instead of blocking the access.
It looks like a problem of the webcam driver itself, or, if it is a laptop with a physical on/off button for webcam, it might be the button that is malfunctioning of the switch that stops physically the USB connection of the webcam.
I have an Acer Aspire V5-431 with Ubuntu 14.04 (amd64) (before it has Windows 7 Home Basic x64), and everything works except the webcam. I searched the additional drivers but Ubuntu can't find it, I tried to update the kernel at the 3.16.1 but the problem continues.
You usually don't have to install driver software for things like cameras in Ubuntu and linux. Just install a camera app like cheese or guvcview. Open a terminal and type the following commands to install guvcview:
My problem is that my webcam is not found, e.g., I open a chatting webpage, where the webcam can be activated, my webcam is not found. Also, if I open the software Cheese, no camera is detected. My laptop has a webcam and it less than 2 months old. Thus, the webcam should work - I hope so.
Please confirm if the camera worked on windows or any other linux os? My research suggests that this is due to missing driver. There 3 ways to solve this problem. First will be switch to windows if camera is that important for your usage. Second would be to compile a kernel with the driver support yourself as mentioned in the second link or wait for a newer kernel. Try installing kernel linux63 aka version 6.3 and boot into that to see if it works.
I have tried the kernel version 63 - the camera still could not be found. Now, I try to install windows using a virtual machine. The software which I intend to use for that is called boxen. Thank you for your reply, I will keep you updated.
Boxen does not allow me to specify the installation path of widows. Oracle VirtualBox is better, however, windows 11 says, my laptop would not fulfil the minimal requirements. This is not true, since it originally came with windows 11. Anyhow, I do not want to devote too much time to this issue. I just wait for updates.
No it doesn't. Regardless of light source the image has purple tint and terrible quality. Only on Hp x360. This is issue has been clearly present and outlined also in YouTube reviews (with video samples) of x360 HP laptops. Pink cast plagues all HP x360 webcams and someone who marked this thread as solved better show some proof, if not I can show a proof how piss poor these HP webcams are.
Webcam drivers usually do not cause a color cast by themselves, but I'd be interested to see how well your webcam is performing now. Btw. pls look up my other post to see how well it performs comparing to Acer laptop webcam... a really laughing matter (for HP).
You can update your drivers automatically with either the 7 days free trial or the Pro version of Driver Easy. It takes just 2 clicks, and you get full support and a 30-day money-back guarantee with the Pro version:
Fortect Windows Repair is tailored to your specific system and is working in a private and automatic way. It will first check hardware-related issues to identify problems, and then security issues (powered by Avira Antivirus), and finally it detects programs that crash, missing system files. Once complete, it will find a solution to your specific problem.
Did the fixes above fix your camera missing in the Device Manager issue? If not, you can either contact Driver Easy (for Pro users) to have professional technicians solve the problem for you, or you can try resetting this PC to see if this works for you. But resetting your PC will erase all your installed programs and their settings. To keep all the data and applications, please create a backup before doing so.
Can't find the camera driver in Device Manager on your device? If so, the problem could be either software-related or a camera malfunction. Don't fret, though; it's easy to fix. This guide will explain why the camera driver may disappear from your Device Manager and how to fix it.
If the camera driver doesn't appear in the Device Manager, ensure it's not hidden and that the camera isn't disabled. If that isn't the case, install camera drivers manually, reset the camera, run the camera troubleshooter, and run Windows built-in scans. If these fixes fail, you should manually add the hardware or reset your computer.
The Device Manager gives users an option to hide devices. Once you hide them, these devices disappear from the Device Manager. Therefore, if you don't see the Camera device, it might have been hidden by mistake. To make sure that's not the case or to unhide the device if it has been hidden, follow these steps:
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