Perthforme

Ok every time i try to use the web cam with skype it works for about a minute the turns off my lappy and restarts it?????
Any ideas or anyone had this happen ?
Cheers.

ScottDavis

Have you tried using your webcam with MSN Messenger? If a similar issue occurs, it will likely be a driver conflict for the webcam. If it's fine, then it sounds like a compatibility issue between your webcam driver and Skype. I'm just guessing without seeing it though, but try MSN Messenger.....

Perthforme

Cheers scott we ended up using it msn to talk and it was ok , i have now removed skype and reloaded the newest version so will test it out next time a reli is on line !

Perthforme

LOL i can't type for crap just noticed the incorrect spelling in the title of this post

Bordy

Don't worry, its not a promlem.

Hutch

Was going to suggest that it might be the USB socket the cam was plugged into (on account of cameras draw a lot of juice from the socket and often provoke spontaneous reboots) but since it worked fine in MSN, there goes that theory! The MSN video code is a lot more mature than Skype's, which is still in beta, so I'd stick with MSN for the time-being.

Perthforme

Yeah just retryed skype ... no good !
Shame as it was great in just voice mode

worzel

We tried talking to the MIL on Skype the other night and it didn't even want to offer video. Maybe a problem their end?