What the

[napoleonherself]

Tom, I bet you know what's up with this. You should explain. Or anyone else who knows, really.

So I plugged in my ancient webcam today, after probably two years of it just gathering dust, and found that somehow I no longer had the drivers for it. Now, I've USED it on this computer -- I wouldn't have installed the webcam server utility if I hadn't -- so I was perhaps understandably confused. But I found the zipfile with the drivers in it, and reinstalled them, and now the camera works.

The only thing is, when it's on, there's a horrible feedback whine or never-ending beep coming through my headphones.

So. Who can tell me why my camera being on would make noise? I am willing to accept "gremlins did it" as an explanation, but only if you bring me the head of the lead gremlin on a pike.

Comments

[vxo.livejournal.com]

With it plugged in, go into the Windows mixer settings and mute anything suspicious. It probably has a malfunctioning internal microphone.

[wing-zero-ew.livejournal.com]

MUTE TOM


THAT IS ALL

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

BUT THEN HE WILL BE OF NO USE TO US ANYMORE

UM

I MEAN

HI

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

It's not supposed to have a microphone... and the noise actually stopped on its own. But if it happens again I will have to go mutez0ring to see if that does help anything.