I have an Acer Aspire 5100 running Home Premium and, for the first time today, I 
plugged in the USB cable from my Sony DSC-P30 digital camera, intending to download 
some photos to my hard drive. I was really surprised to find that Vista does not 
recognize the cable, claiming that it has no driver for it. I have tried everything 
I could within Vista and no luck. I tried Sony and found no Vista driver for this 
camera. Does anyone have any idea where I can find a solution for this? I tried drivers.com, 
and no luck there either.

Thank you,

Tom

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re: Driver for digital camera Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 10:22 pm Posted by quick69gto (840 messages posted) Your right. Sony says Vista will see all it's cameras and install native drivers for it. http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?news_id=149&mdl=DSCP30 Plug the camera in and go to windows update. You might get lucky and the drivers will be there. Good luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Driver for digital camera Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 12:27 pm Posted by Tom (95 messages posted) I did but no luck! :-( Tom On Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 10:22 pm, quick69gto wrote: >Your right. Sony says Vista will see all it's cameras and install native drivers >for it. > >http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?news_id=149&mdl=DSCP30 > >Plug the camera in and go to windows update. You might get lucky and the drivers >will be there. > >Good luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Driver for digital camera Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm Posted by quick69gto (840 messages posted) Go to "Start", "Control Panel", "System and Maintenance", "Administrative Tools", and open "Services". Scroll down to "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)", double click on it, set it to "Automatic", and start it. If it's already started then you will probably have to go to the Device Manager and manually install the drivers for the camera. Good luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Driver for digital camera Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 5:04 pm Posted by Tom (95 messages posted) Thank you very much for taking the time to respond and for your excellent suggestion. I got excited when I went to Services and saw WIA set to Automatic but NOT started. So I started it and then plugged in my camera, but I got the usual Found New Hardware message followed by a searh of Windows Update, and then a request for me to insert my Sony CD. MS Update did not have the driver. On the Sony site I found drivers for this camera for all operating systems except Vista, along with a note from Sony saying that Vista can take care of this and no Sony driver is needed. Obviously each is making assumptions about the other and no one has done the cross-checking. Maybe I am the first? In any case, I am out of luck still, but sincerely appreciate your reply. Thank you, Tom On Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm, quick69gto wrote: >Go to "Start", "Control Panel", "System and Maintenance", "Administrative Tools", >and open "Services". >Scroll down to "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)", double click on it, set it to "Automatic", >and start it. >If it's already started then you will probably have to go to the Device Manager and >manually install the drivers for the camera. > >Good luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Driver for digital camera Friday, January 4, 2008 at 10:02 am Posted by quick69gto (840 messages posted) Lets try this: Plug your camera in and turn it on. Let Vista do it's thing then exit out of everything when it's done. Now go to "Start", right click "Computer", select "Properties", and click on the "Device Manager". There should be a question mark next to your camera. Right click, select "Update Driver Software", and then select "Browse My Computer for Driver Software". In the next window select "Let me pick from a List of Device Drivers on My Computer", uncheck "Show Compatible Hardware", then under the "Manufacturer" column scroll down to Sony and click once to highlight. Now under the "Model" column look for you camera, click once to highlight, and click next. If it gives a big fat warning about the wrong drivers, install them anyway. Then I would go to Windows Update to see if they offer drivers. Good luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Driver for digital camera Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 6:29 am Posted by Tom (95 messages posted) This worked!!!! I can't believe it. I dutifully followed the steps you outlined figuring I'd run into a dead end, but I did find Sony on the list and I did find "DSC". I installed it in spite of the warnings you mentioned, and I can now access my camera! Thank you so very, very much! I had lost faith in Vista and Microsoft. Of course, they could have made it a little easier - as could Sony I should add. Thanks again, and Happy New Year! Tom On Friday, January 4, 2008 at 10:02 am, quick69gto wrote: >Lets try this: >Plug your camera in and turn it on. Let Vista do it's thing then exit out of everything >when it's done. >Now go to "Start", right click "Computer", select "Properties", and click on the >"Device Manager". There should be a question mark next to your camera. Right click, >select "Update Driver Software", and then select "Browse My Computer for Driver Software". >In the next window select "Let me pick from a List of Device Drivers on My Computer", >uncheck "Show Compatible Hardware", then under the "Manufacturer" column scroll down >to Sony and click once to highlight. Now under the "Model" column look for you camera, >click once to highlight, and click next. >If it gives a big fat warning about the wrong drivers, install them anyway. >Then I would go to Windows Update to see if they offer drivers. > >Good luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum