re: OLYMPUS C-350 Windows XP problems
Friday, November 24, 2006 at 12:34 am
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Posted by Patience
(1 messages posted)
No one has written on this thread in over two years, so maybe there's a fix to it
now someone can share with those of us moving to computers with XP just now.
I have a C-3030zoom and have the problem mentioned here. I'm using a Toshiba Satellite
with 4 USB ports. Only 2 of the ports recognize the camera and then start the driver
installation wizard automatically.
Unlike many other USB devices I have, the camera does not show up automatically as
a newly lettered drive (no other USB devices attached at same time) via Explorer,
per the claims made earlier on this thread.
If I go into device manager, under disk drives there is nothing listed for Olympus....so
even if I did have other devices attached, mismapping the drive doesn't seem to be
the problem.
I went to the Olympus site and find only 2000 or 98 drives and an Adobe doc mentioning
work-arounds for other Camedias but not the c-3030. (There is a patch for the C-Master,
but I do not have the software anymore and never needed it to use it with my past
OSes.)
I downloaded the 2000 driver anyway and got XP to accept it. It has the small "safely
remove hardware" icon in the system tray in the low left, but the 3030z is still
not recognized by explorer or device manager as a new drive yet.
The system tray icon gives me hope that some part of XP knows hardware is attached.
Anyone still around here that has any ideas of what to try at this point? Thanks.
If not, I'll keep working on it and report back for anyone else that may have not
trashed this camera already.
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