Drivers for a Meade LPI

[Iain]

Anyone know the real path to the Meade LPI drivers ?

Junk drivers like a, Trust Webcam 14823, are always picked up, but never work. Slowly drives a normally sane person round the twist !!

Iain, Whangarei, NZ

[supernova1965]

Hi Iain

You haven't mentioned which OS.you have but I would bet it was vista or win7.

This link covers the problem you face an all available solutions it is an old bugbear that has bothered us for some time. This will only work for win 32 bit as there are no 64bit drivers available.

http://www.meade4m.com/index.php?/topic/1672-2010-how-to-install-meade-lpi-windows-vista-windows-7-ver-55/

[Ric]

Hi Iain

In my experience of using the LPI it works fine with the provided software but only with windows XP 32 bit or older.

I've tried the work arounds with Vista and all have been with many problems.

I use an old dedicated desktop computer running XP and only what I need for imaging with the Meade LPI, no problems encountered since.

Cheers

[supernova1965]

I have the LPI running fine on win7 32bit with the meade software Ric it runs really well too.

[Ric]

That's interesting Warren

Is that a work-around?
Do you think it will work for Win7 64 bit?

Cheers

[supernova1965]

Hi Ric,

It's a workaround you have to go into the registry and rename the camera that windows thinks is Trust with some numbers that I can't remember right now the reason it doesn't work is that the Meade software looks for Meade LPI camera and can't find it. The reason it won't work on 64 bit is there is no 64 bit driver that will run the camera if there were you could make it work on 64 bit windows 7.:shrug:

[Ric]

Thanks for the info Warren.

Cheers

[2stroke]

Just disable driver signing, a quick google will show you how :) then force drive install manually, if it doesn't work after that i dont know because its meant to be a SN9C102 which sonix don't make a 64bit driver for. VMware could be a dirty option or dual boot xp and win 7 x64