W'7 and Philips Vesta PCVC690K

[bojan]

Hi all,

My Dell (w'XP) suffered a blue death.. probably memory or HD is a problem and I will fix it in the near future.
In the meantime, I would like to use my Vesta webcam (for alignment and auto-guiding) on Lenovo, running w'7.

Does anybody have the necessary drivers (according to K3CCDTools (http://www.pk3.org/Astro/index.htm?k3ccdtools_howto_philips_ vista.htm) webpage, the list of necessary files is given on one of the screenshots)?

My problem is, that laptop was the only machine I had that was running XP.. and I can't access it's HD to collect drivers as suggested.
The original Vesta installation disk and whatever I downloaded from the web is useless for w'7 machine (I found couple of links to the collection of those drivers, but they are dead.. ).
Thanks in advance!

[mithrandir]

Think you are pushing your luck Bojan. The latest drivers (http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/cpindex.pl?ctn=PCVC690K&hlt=Link_Software&mid=Link_Software&scy=GB&slg=ENG) Philips list are for XP.

[bojan]

Yes, I know..
But, according to Peter Katerniak (http://www.pk3.org/Astro/index.htm?k3ccdtools_howto_philips_ vista.htm), they should work.. provided they are already installed on XP macnine and collected from there.
That's what I am after.

[bojan]

Well, I found it here (http://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_code=16195&v_page=23) .. Vive la France :thumbsup:!
However, it seems this set of drivers can't be used on 64-bit OS..

So it seems I will have to fix my Dell lappy after all, and soon..

[2stroke]

Just try forcing them by manual hardware install, worth a shot.

edit lol that link is a tut for it, just try them and see.

You could always daul boot xp and win7, also vmware could run xp inside win7 and you may be able to get it working that way. The only issue with installing xp on a system with win7 on it already is that you will need to repair the boot file using easybcd or another boot manager. I have to do this myself yet as i hate win8 and want win7 though without damaging the lame hp restore partition, so i can later put the notebook back to factory if i decide to sell.