Need USBI-CAM Engine

[stanlep]

I have received help from this forum to install the appropriate drivers for WiFi and to make the USB ports work. Thank you. I have another problem which I think is another related driver problem.

I am using a CCD camera, SBIG ST-i, to get astonomical images with a telescope. When I hook up the camera to the laptop, the Found New Hardware Wizard comes up. It wants to search for and install USBI-CAM Engine. It cannot find it. I contacted the software developer that supports the software that reads this camera and they say it should work. In light of my previous problems of getting the appropriate drivers for WiFi and USB after re-installing Windows XP, I think this is another driver related issue. I had this software installed before I re-installed Windows XP and it worked.  The laptop recognized the camera and I got images.

Is there another driver executable file I need to run to get the USBI-CAM engine?

Stan

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

It appears your camera needs a driver from the manufacturer's website.

http://diffractionlimited.com/product/st-i/

Probably the The SBIG Universal Driver, found under the downloads tab.

[stanlep]

Thank you. You may be correct. I'll give it a try. However, I did not have to do this before (before I re-installed XP), and last night in inserted the disk that came with the camera. The Wizard could not find what it needed there. Also, the software developer that I said I talked to this morning  was Diffracton Limited.

Anyway, I'll see what happens when I download it.

Stan

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I hope it works because it isn't a HP device that needs the driver installed.

Might be a missing Windows XP component, but I would have no idea which one it could possibly be missing.

[stanlep]

Paul,

It worked, but it shouldn't have.  I had downloaded the Driver Checker for the 32 bit machine I have and it updated all the drivers. The one you found was the driver checker for a 64 bit system. I should not have had to run the 64 bit driver checker. It should have been in the 32 bit driver checker. I think what happened is that Diffraction Limited had bought out SBIG (whose primary business was astronomical CCD cameras) and carried on the software, such as CCDOPS. They modified the installation program for installing CCDOPS, which also installed the Driver Checker. Apparently, someone goofed and failed to include all the drivers for a 32 bit system. I will call them and let them know what happened.

Stan

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Glad you were able to get it to work.

Maybe they just need to change the title of the file if it includes both the 32 and 64 bit drivers now.