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After talking to the Sony Tech support folks, I discovered that having
this camera plugged in to your USB port, and having the 3dfx Voodoo3
3500 TV does not allow the USB connection to work.  The symptoms are
described below.  The real problem is the TV tuner driver.  I remove
the 3dfx Voodoo3 TV Tuner driver from the device manager and the
problem goes away.  Just as a reference if anyone else is going
through this nightmare, in order to use your camera with the USB port,
you have to remove the driver from your device manager (its under the
Sound, video and game controllers section).  Use your camera and then
reboot.  Upon rebooting your computer SHOULD recognize that it is
missing the driver for the TV Tuner hardware that it finds and
re-installs it.  Cheesy, I know.

Ken

On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:51:51 GMT, bytedr@homess.com (Ken Fayal) wrote:

>Thanks to those who have already sent suggestions.  I have a wierd
>problem with my F505 and USB.  I installed everything from the CD-ROM
>and things went as advertized in the manual.  The only problem is,
>every time I try to click on my Removable Drive in explorer, which is
>the Sony cam, it says "The disk in drive H is not formatted.  Do you
>want to format it now?"  If you say yes, the properties of the "drive"
>say that the "disk" has 0K available space and if you let it try to
>format, then it says, "Drive H cannot be formatted."  DUH!  If you say
>"No" then it just sits there.  
>
>I verified that I have the latest drivers, the removable drive
>properly appears and disappears when the camera is connected and
>disconnected.  It's just that the computer doesn't think the camera's
>"drive" is formatted.  This sucks!  I can't even get my pictures off
>the camera.  I already have all my serial ports taken up and I really
>wanted to use the USB port. (one of the reasons I got the camera).  
>
>Another interesting fact.. I also have a ZIP drive which shows itself
>as a "Removable Drive"  I wonder if there is some sort of conflict?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ken