A60 Canon Camera & a PCI USB card?

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

Cory Lechner

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.



"Cory Lechner" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
>
>

He is running Windows 98 SE.... Pentium 233 Mhz...

"Thor" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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.
>
>
>
> "Cory Lechner" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > 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
> >
> >
>
>

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:

> He is running Windows 98 SE.... Pentium 233 Mhz...
>
> "Thor" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>"Cory Lechner" <> wrote in message
>>news:...
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:31:40 -0600, "Cory Lechner"
<> wrote:

>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?

Shouldn't be a problem. Does the manual say anything about what
version of USB?

> Any ideas/suggestions.advice?

Did you go into a photo program and try to acquire the device?

Did you go into My Computer to see if it got installed as a hard
drive?

Here's more...


http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

Watch the wrap.

Also, you should have a diagnostic program on the computer called
usbready.exe. Run it. If you don't have it...get it. Its a free
download.

Good luck.



Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season...

Trent

Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:31:40 -0600, "Cory Lechner"
<> wrote:

>My buddy received as a gift a Canon A60 digital camera which uses USB to
>transfer images to the PC.

One more thing...

Make sure you change the drive letter designation in Windows for any
cd drives you might have.

Change the cdrom to R...the writer to W. This will prevent any
possible drive letter conflict when the camera is connected.



Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season...

Trent

Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

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.