Comments on: Lenovo Integrated Camera again working on Windows 7

By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:01:34 +0000

The camera on my brand new W520 wasn’t working and not showing up in the device manager (win 7 x64). Activating the camera with Fn+F6 wasn’t working either.
Had to call Lenovo support. It turned out, there was a hardware issue and the camera had to be replaced. The technician said there was either an issue with the camera module or with the wiring.
After replacing the camera, it showed up in the device manager and is now working as expected.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:11:29 +0000

Lenovo’s own driver-package was utterly useless on my Windows 7 x64. Could not get the driver activated for the bare life of me. XP-SP3 had no issues…
So I stumbled upon this site and replaced Lenovo’s faulty driver with Microsoft’s own buildt-in ones and voilá. Perfect match!

Thanks Benjamin. Really hats off for this one

Cheers!
/Kenneth

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:24:21 +0000

First it worked then it did not…When my new company laptop (Lenovo 410) was updated to Win 7 SP2, the camera disappeared eg no longer was displayed via FnF6
I found the following answers through searching other sites. Device manager reported a problem with the device. The driver wasn’t signed
Reboot the computer. Press ‘F8′ during restart. Select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement from the boot menu. This fixed the driver issue in my case but has to be done at startup every time to make the camera work!!!
permanent disable driver signature enforcement (a security risk)
Open a command prompt as an admin search for CMD.exe, [right click on found file CMD.exe and run as administrator] and type

bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

See security risk warning above.
If it doesn’t work for whatever reason you can just remove loadoptions with bcedit and switch testsigning off.
bcdedit /deletevalue loadoptions
then
bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:48:19 +0000

You are a f’n genius. Have an x201 and the camera has nvever worked since the day I got the computer. Thank you!!!

By: Bai

Bai — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:48:19 +0000

I do have the same problem in my lenovo 3000 N100 system. Tried all the way available in some forums. downloaded the drivers and get it installed…

Pls some one help me to get rid of this issue…

By: min

min — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:38:12 +0000

i don’t have that usb video device in my win7

By: Kai-Mei

Kai-Mei — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:43:35 +0000

thanks!

By: Ronald Kalaquian

Ronald Kalaquian — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:29:39 +0000

Thank you so much!

By: Scott Otterson

Scott Otterson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:41:56 +0000

Benjamin,

Thanks a ton: Fn+F6 did the trick for me. I had no idea that function existed!

Scott

By: Benjamin Schröter

Benjamin Schröter — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:34:54 +0000

Maybe this will be useful for some of you: On some models or with certain software or bios versions you can turn on / off the webcam by pressing Fn+F6.

It works the same way as turning on wireless network by pressing Fn+F5 – unfortunately lenovo does not print this onto the keyboard.