{"id":431,"date":"2007-12-02T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T10:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2007-12-02T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T10:06:42","slug":"fixing-webcam-black-screen-on-an-eee-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/431-fixing-webcam-black-screen-on-an-eee-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Webcam black screen on an Asus Eee PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reviewing the Asus Eee PC, running Linux. I was not the first user of this machine; I guess it was reviewed by someone else and then the OS was restored before it was sent to me. No problem with that; except that the webcam did not work. If I ran the webcam app I got a black screen, though the webcam led lit as if it were working. If I ran the diagnostic it did not detect the webcam, but said &#8220;Plug in your webcam&#8221; and &#8220;Failed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the fix. Reboot the machine and press F2 to go into the BIOS settings. Select the Advanced page and then OS Installation. It&#8217;s set to &#8220;Start&#8221;, right? Press Enter, and select Finished. Then F10 for Save and Exit. Webcam now works.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to be a common problem for Eee PC users who have restored the OS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:144ca3b1-d82a-468d-9c9f-f66c360f7cf4\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\">Technorati tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/eee%20pc\">eee pc<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/webcam\">webcam<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/black%20screen\">black screen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reviewing the Asus Eee PC, running Linux. I was not the first user of this machine; I guess it was reviewed by someone else and then the OS was restored before it was sent to me. No problem with that; except that the webcam did not work. If I ran the webcam app I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/431-fixing-webcam-black-screen-on-an-eee-pc.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fixing Webcam black screen on an Asus Eee PC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}