Thanks again, Greg.
I have not seen a popup saying the camera has been detected. I'll investigate that further.
Al.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Yes device not found - annoying.
I take it you are sure your camera is powered up.
I sometimes saw that with my filter wheel.
Also with my ST402ME I would occassionally have trouble.
Basically the sequence is the SBIG camera needs to be powered up then connected (or you can power it up whilst connected to the computer) with CCDsoft off. Once the camera is booted up off the computer and done its harware found thingy and the drivers are installed then you open up CCDsoft.
If you for example interrupt an SBIG camera whilst connected to the Sky and then try to reconnect it you will usually get an error message -
"undescribed error".
This is because the SBIG cameras don't have a buffer and memory on board and need to load the driver everytime they connect or reconnect to the computer.
If CCDsoft is still running they will rarely simply reconnect.
That is one possible thing to check out.
But it sounds like you need to do the add hardware routine where the camera is actually detected by windows and activated if you are getting that message.
The found new hardware little box naming your camera should have appeared in the bottom right of your screen at some point when first loaded. Did it?
If not then the computer does not know it is there. So add/found new hardware is the routine you go through and you enter the location of the drivers which is typically:
c\programfiles\commonfiles\SBIG\
The driver is in the SBIG drive checker folder.
Try that and see if that helps.
The other possibility is support for parallel may have dropped out for some reason. Check with Bisque about that.
Greg.
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