Hey
I've been having Asus K52JT for some time now and the webcam has always worked well. In the last week it started behaving strangely. I have to restart every time i want to have a video chat otherwise the other party doesn't see me. Sometimes even that doesn't help, but the next restart usually sorts things out.
At the same time i got reports from skype that i should close down other programs that might be using the camera which is not working apparently for that reason. I then deleted "Asus Virtual camera" from my laptop and the problem disappeared. At the same time, when i desperately tried to solve this problem i also uninstantiated the drivers for the in-built webcam, thinking i will install new ones which i found on Asus website. But i had a nasty surprise when i tried to do so. For my computer there rare 3 different drivers available.
Azurewave Camera Driver
D-MAX Camera Driver
Chicony Camera Driver
It doesn't matter which of them i try to install - i always get upon clicking the installation exe file the same window "VGA, 1.4, 2.0 WebCam - error".
The driver i previously uneinstalled was from Chicony if i remember correctly.
Now comes the funny bit. If i go to the Device Manager i can see just "USB Camera" with Windows driver which inverts the whole picture upside down!
Also, the "usb Camera" for some reason disappears after a variable amount of time. At that point also in skype it appears the computer doesn't have a webcam. I must also say that the webcam has actually never stopped working while in use in a video chat. 😞
Please, help me. I really don't know what else to do. 😞