Can't get past step one (install drivers) on Win8 RP

[calinb7]

I have the XBOX Kinect sensor, Geforce GT630/2GB, Win8 RP.  I followed the recontructme site instructions (VS redist, etc.).  I ran the OpenNI and  SensorKinect driver installers as instructed.  Upon reboot, the system does not recognize the Kinect sensor when plugged-in.  

 

- Device Mgr. shows the yellow exclamation mark on  "XBOX NUI Motor" and no other related devices.

 

- Program Mgr. (or whatever it's called in Win8) shows:

                        PrimeSense Sensor KinectMod 5.1.0.25 for Windows

                        OpenNI 1.5.2.23 for Windows.

 

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

 

Thanks,

 

-Cal

[Christoph Heindl]

Am Montag, 26. November 2012 13:18:44 UTC+1 schrieb calinb7:

I have the XBOX Kinect sensor, Geforce GT630/2GB, Win8 RP.  I followed the recontructme site instructions (VS redist, etc.).  I ran the OpenNI and  SensorKinect driver installers as instructed.  Upon reboot, the system does not recognize the Kinect sensor when plugged-in.  

Does your device manager show Kinect (on main level)? If so, it probably means you have Kinect for Windows drivers installed. Follow these instructions

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/reconstructme/EIA102AU21A/bGUvkLCSJDEJ

Thanks

[Cal Brabandt]

No.  All I have in Device Manager is "XBOX Nui Motor" with the exclamation mark.  Could there be something wrong with my "Factory Refurbished" Kinect Sensor?

Thanks so much for your help!

-Cal

[Coert Langkemper]

Did you connect the power adaptor including the "Y" cable.
I had the same but forgot to plug-in the adaptor in mains!

Regards, Coert

[Cal Brabandt]

Yes--I was looking for some oversight like that, but I have the power adapter plugged into the wall outlet and the "Y."  The light is on in the "Y."  Is there anything other power switch or something?   I even tried the two-foot-long gray "extension" cord USB cable.  I'm not sure why they included it.

I think I might need to kick my daughter off our Mythtv HTPC and boot it to XP (dual boot) to try the drivers and Kinect.  It actually has a much faster CPU (quad core) than this machine, but its video card isn't on the compatibility list (Geforce 7950GT) but I'd think the drivers would at least install and discover the Kinect.

If it doesn't work there, I'll take the Kinect sensor back to Fry's electronics and try another one, I guess.

Thanks,

-Cal

[calinb7]

I installed the Kinect drivers under WinXP and everything worked fine.  This appears to be a Win8 incompatibility.  Though apparently unrelated, I had to go through this song and dance to install the Arduino drivers under Win8 for my Ultimaker 3D printer:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,94651.15.html

Win8 is a PITA!  I don't really have time to figure this out right now.  XP worked great!  It found the new hardware and I just had it search locally on my machine for each driver.  Unfortunately, I don't have an OpenCL capable card on that machine and ReconstrucMeQt doesn't work, as expected.  I'm sure it will be slow to capture too, though I get a video image so it is working on XP.

 

[calinb7]

Update:

 

I explicitly told Win8 to search for a driver for the Xbox NUI Motor (yellow exclaimation mark) on the entire C:\ drive.   It reports that it found software but encountered an error trying to install it:  "The hash file is not present in the specified catalog file.  The file is likely corrupt of the victim of tampering."

 

So, like my previous Arduino driver hassle, it sounds like Win8 is trying to protect me from installing an unsigned driver or something similar.  Arghh!

 

[calinb7]

I followed the Win8 driver song and dance, as described in the Arduino forum I linked above.  The drivers installed but now the console ap fails.  Visual C++ 2010 for both x86 and x64 is installed.

 

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[calinb7]

It works!  I installed ReconstructMEQt and it worked.  Then I tried the console again and it worked. :)  Maybe I clicked on the wrong console batch file the first time or maybe it needed something in the Qt installer.  Whatever.  It finally works on Win8!