Photos not sending to PC

[GothicPony]

I just got a Fujifilm S3100 digital camera on the 16th. That day I took some photos, followed the instructions to load the software.. and everything worked fine. The screen came up automatically and moved my pictures to the computer. Saturday I took a lot more ohotos, I went to transport them to the computer and it did nothing. It didn't give me any warning boxes, or open the FinePix viewer like it's supposed to or anything. We checked the connection of the camera and the settings and all that was fine. I unplugged it, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and programs, restarted, and plugged it back in and still nothing. The drivers aren't listed in the device manager yet FUJIFILM USB Driver is listed under Add/Removed Programs. Anyone have any ideas?

[Matt_C]

Is your Autoplay working. eg if you put a blank CD R in the CD rewriter does windows open a box asking you what you would like to do with it. The only reason I ask is a friend of mine had a similar problem which was due to the autoplay not working. When the camera was plugged in the computer would make a sound indicating it was connected but the pictures would not automatically download and finepix viewer would not open.

If this is the cause it's very easy to fix. I have a copy of the patch which I could Email you. I'll also try to find a link to download it from.

Apart from that I have no idea

Matt

[GothicPony]

I thought of that, I looked up some troubleshooting sites and alot of them said it could be because of Autoplay. I have Windoes 98, most of them said it was a typically XP problem. If you could email the patch or send a link it would be very helpful, definently worth a try. What doesn't make sense to me is that it worked fine Friday, and won't work now. Hmm..

[GothicPony]

Just tried the CD R test, it made alot of noise but nothing happened.. gee it's days like these I wish I knew even basic things about computers.

[Matt_C]

Hmmm I think the patch I have is for Windows XP heres a link to download it if you want to give it a try.

http://www.evesham.com/support/epict...re/autofix.exe

Good luck

Matt

[GothicPony]

Yeah, that's the one I got. When I try to open it it says..Error Starting Program the AUTOFIX.EXE file is linked to missing export KERNELL32.DLL:GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPointW. At the same time I get C:\Windows\Desktop\autofix.exe A device attached to the system is not functioning. So frustrating.

[Matt_C]

Probably a silly suggestion but have you tried changing the batteries. Sometimes if they are low it can cause problems with some USB connections.

Only other thing I can suggest is to download and install the latest drivers for your camera connection.

Hers a link to where it is. Looks like it's been updated recently as well so probably worth a try.

http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epa...cucatid=664260

Hope this helps

Matt

[GothicPony]

Ohh I got really hopeful there for a second but it still doesn't work. I e-mailed the fujifilm support site. Maybe they can think of something. Thanks for all your help in mean time!

[GothicPony]

One site said that some updated versions of Windows 98 may require a card reader, instead of directly hooking the camera to the computer. Does this make sense? Even though it worked last Friday?

[GothicPony]

I believe I've figured out the problem.. my computer isn't even acknowledging the USB ports. My brother is supposed to be coming by tomorrow to work on it, I barely know enough about computers to know why it's not working. Lol.

[NetworkGuy]

Though I am a "computer guy" that doesn't make me a magician and I too am left to find a good explanation for why the auto picture download window functionality has vanished. I have two different hard drives on this same PC that I can boot from and both have the same opperating system, WinXP SP2. Oddly the Fuji A210 camera works fine in one OS environment while not in the other. The CD-R auto prompt does work on my system (with the problem). I am having another imaging problem with my HP Scanner software being buggered up. I suspect some correlation.

Tonight I've uninstalled all the Fuji software and the HP software and then did a "SFC /scnannow" from a command prompt to see if any of the system files were corrupt. After that things are unaltered. I just updated my bios (though I didn't expect it to be at fault since the other OS running on it works). Now I am here searching for help.

When I discover anything I'll come back and make a post.

Dale

[NetworkGuy]

OK here's a link to a Microsoft article that refers the this. (according to the article - It may be caused by me defeating the Ctrl-Alt-Delete prompt at logon. I used Tweak-Ui to configure the PC to automatically log in with my credentials.)

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822660

Keyword: AutoPlay at MS Download Center

http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/r...eText=autoplay

I'll report what happens later.

[NetworkGuy]

After running the Autofix it reported no problems detected. ...it goes on...

After a OS "in-place-reinstall" and lots of aggraviting hours I discovred that the culprit was a program was interfering with USB functionality. This was discoverd in a Microsoft Windows XP newsgroup post by using the keywords "autoplay" and "fuji". (Yes there are others of us suffering out there.)

Real Player is the culprit. Please consider uninstalling this program as part of your pallet of fix choices. It immediately resolved my Fuji camera Autoplay problems.

Links to outside forums on this conflict:
microsoft newsgroup - expand Autoplay thread

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Regards