- A60 Canon Camera & a PCI USB card?
- Posted by Cory Lechner on December 19th, 2003
My buddy received as a gift a Canon A60 digital camera which uses USB to
transfer images to the PC. However, his PC does not have USB port(s)
installed (older machine obviously, A-Trend i430TX-SMC67X motherboard). We
went and bought a 4 hub USB PCI expansion card to make his PC "USB" capable.
I installed the card and the driver for the card without trouble. Device
Manager states that the USB components are working properly.
When we install the TWAIN drivers for the camera, it says that the camera
must NOT be hooked up to the computer until the twain driver is installed
(I'm not sure if he installed it without the camera connected or not ). So
I decided to uninstall the driver, then re-install it. Still no camera is
found by the PC (camera is on, hooked up to the PC via the USB cable, and
also in "replay" mode (as stated in manual). Can you use this camera with a
non-onboard PCI USB card? Any ideas/suggestions.advice?
Cory
- Posted by Thor on December 19th, 2003
what version of windows? If it's Win95, don't waste your time. The USB
support was minimal at best.
Additionally, on such old slow computers, I've seen huge problems with USB
devices not working well. I believe it's just that the machine is often too
slow to properly run the USB interface with certain devices. A system with a
430TX chipset is pretty slow. 233Mhz at best.
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- Posted by Cory Lechner on December 19th, 2003
He is running Windows 98 SE.... Pentium 233 Mhz...
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- Posted by Calvin Crumrine on December 19th, 2003
Onboard USB, add-in USB. Doesn't matter-as long as the add-in card is
properly installed & functional. (As far as that goes the qualification
could apply to the onboard too-but you hardly ever find onboard
components that aren't properly installed, physically anyhow.)
Cory Lechner wrote:
- Posted by JK on December 20th, 2003
Have you tried using other USB devices? I suggest that you borrow
a USB mouse or other USB peripheral from a friend and try it on
the system. With Windows 98 SE, USB should work fine. I had
a problem on my pc downloading images directly from my camera
(not an A60) and bought a card reader which works fine. If your
USB ports work with other peripherals, you might want to buy
a card reader to download images. Make sure to get one for
Compact Flash. It will probably be under $20.
