Camera problem..

Greetings ppl,

I have a small problem here with an acer digital camera with a usb port connector..The problem is the following..When i plug the camera into the pc via the usb cable it shuts down my pc,regardless whether it is on or off.If i leave it plugged in and try to restart it refuses to boot..Plug it out and it goes fine no problem..The acer software is on my pc and the only instruction is to turn a little knob next to the shutter on the top to custom settings ,select usb cable and your pc should then pick it up as a removable drive.. Best of all it used to work for a week(only got it last week)and now all of a sudden it does that..

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated..
thanks
vanman:D

Just a thought but maybe the USB port might be playing games.
Have you tried plugging something else into that USB port like a wireless keyboard or something.

Or try just plugging in the cord once windows loads up, then once everything is loaded up, plug the camera to the usb cord.
and if it shuts down once you connect the camera to the cord, then i'd say the camera is a little flucked..

Regards
f2b

You going through a USB hub?

I've seen them do some funny things.
Never seen it shut a PC down though.

Hi vanman

I am guessing this is your Windows XP box?...............are there any messages in the logs?

I would concur with Aspman in that I have seen some strange things with USB, but never it provoking a shutdown.

Try what .:front2back:. suggests. I would also try a different cable if you have one, and see if you get the same result with ALL the USB ports.

:)

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Originally posted here by nihil
Hi vanman

I am guessing this is your Windows XP box?...............are there any messages in the logs?

Try what .:front2back:. suggests. I would also try a different cable if you have one, and see if you get the same result with ALL the USB ports.

:)

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Thx guys..I am not going through a hub and i have tried one other usb port "same story " and i have tried my flashdrive which works fine..Nihil i have not looked at the logs but will do so when i get home.It is my xp box and one other thing i have tried bypassing my my extended cable which i forgot to mention and went straight into the usb.Still nothing..

A shot in the dark here ppl, can it be that it is draining my psu or not??Just remembered i have just put in my new graphix card Leadtek geforce 6 le 128mb,but running it from a seperate psu built into my box which is 200watt..Could this have anything to do with it??

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but running it from a seperate psu built into my box which is 200watt..Could this have anything to do with it??

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i'd place money on that's the cause of the drama. Your outlet is obviously not handling the surge, and therefore shutting down the system.
try putting in a smaller card or something, then try it.

Remember front2back it is a totally seperate psu with it,s own supply..I still have my 300watt one servicing the system and screen etc,..Just want to make sure ..Are you thinking that i am running my system on the 200??That one just feeds the screencard..My 300 is too small to handle the screencard as well as all the rest..:D

Edit:Just thouht of this..I am going to try the camera on another system at a friends house and i will let you know what happened :)

Hi vanman
Please get yourself a bigger power supply as i suspect that with your current setup something else will go.Must say this is the first time i have heard that someone runs two power supplies to power there comp and to me this spells trouble (harmonics) You have the screencard pluged in the agp slot and if you are running the 6800 ultra as i am you have to have 12v pluged in from a spare conector(the same type that plugs into a h/d)
What i dont know is how many AMPS the camera pulls when pluged into the USB port compared with the flashdrive.
When i installed my screen card it pulled my comp dead. I then unpluged one of the hard drives everything worked fine until i tried to burn a DVD and lo and behold one dead DVD drive.Bought a 500 watt power supply and new DVD drive now every thing works
Regards
Mike

Well after trying it on my friends pc with a 350 watt psu, first in the usb2 port which picked up new hardware found but we could not get the system on his machine to accept the drivers...Then we decided to use one of the normal usb,s and his mouse and keyboard went dead..By dead i mean he could not use it while in windows.. Just for intrest sake he formatted his hdd boot partition the previous night so there was nothing unsual which can cause this scenario..

I am at a dead end so tell me what you guys propose and in the meanwhile i will have to think about taking it to the dealer where it was bought or am i making a mistake, reason being that "i could have been the cause of this or am i just paranoid??

i'd would have sent it back to the dealer telling 'em the prob and get 'em to check the camera cause it's starting to sound like the camera is faulty.
So you could spend weeks trying different things and if the camera is faulty, then you arn't gonna get anywhere...
If you just purchased it, then take it back to the store, and try to exchange it or something for something identical.

cheers
f2b:.

Goodday ppl,

Well I finally got some good/bad news yesterday when my wife decided to spoil me and bought me a new access case with 500watt psu and quick release functions for easy fitment of hdd , stiffy drive etc..Now here is the rotten part..I decided to test the camera again and guess what??It resetted my pc again and the pc worked for about one day and refused to boot again.. My hdd in cmos was picked up as some kind of alien device because I could not read the description when auto detected..End result ..boot partition as well as the rest of 115 gig had to be formatted..No repair option nor the option of deleting the boot partition and creating a new one helped .Still it told me that the drive as a whole had to be formatted…sigh..

Formatted the whole thing and I thought everything I had was lost!!My son,s friend then came along and gave me a recovery program called restorer 2000 professional.I thought ..ya just another one which recovers just about nothing..Guys I recovered about 60-80% of my stuff successfully..Could not believe my luck but yeah.. it actually works..I sent the camera to the supplier and will receive the results within a week or so..Looks like it is the problem..for me anyway..

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My son,s friend then came along and gave me a recovery program called restorer 2000 professional

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Man so much for *****Peer downloading, now it's delivered straight to ur front door. ;)
Anyhow you soon find out if the camera was indeed faulty, and i would be suprised if it wasn't faulty.
The sypmtoms that appear once you plug it in really makes it hard not to think that it isn't.

Anyhow let us know what happens vman.

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Originally posted here by .:front2back:.

Anyhow you soon find out if the camera was indeed faulty, and i would be suprised if it wasn't faulty.The sypmtoms that appear once you plug it in really makes it hard not to think that it isn't.Anyhow let us know what happens vman.

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You were right front2back.The dealer contacted me and confirmed that the camera was indeed faulty..I got a new one..My new!!!screencard strangely enough also started giving me problems by not wanting to start up and just gave a long beep error..I send it away in the meantime to the same dealer because they were bought together at the same time and came via courier straigt to my house .The moral of the story...Always try to buy it straight off the shelf and carry it yourself..The main coulprits were the couriers because as far as i can remember they usually do not handle stuff with a great deal of respect..

All is well now so thanks again and i hope someone can benefit from this experince of mine and choose your carrier well if you cannot get it yourself:D