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These steps here helps help to diagnose and collect helpful information when encountering camera issues while using a Micro-Vu machine. Often, these simple steps may resolve these issues and help identify the root cause of the problem.

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Check if the machine cable is securely plugged into a valid USB 3.0 port on the computer. A valid USB 3.0 port should be identified by the blue insert OR a SuperSpeed symbol, as illustrated below. Also, some PC Some PCs may have “charging ports” that are used specifically for charging purposes. Using these ports are special “charging ports” indicated with a lightning bolt symbol, but using these ports for your machine is not recommended by Micro-Vu.

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  • If not, plug the cable into a valid USB 3.0 port and try again to determine if the problem still exists. If so, continue with the diagnostic steps.

Verify Camera Connection

Open Device Manager and verify that the machine’s camera is connected under Imaging Devices

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  • If the machine’s camera does not appear. Try the following steps to see if the issue can be resolved.

    1. Power off the machine completely
    2. Unplug the USB cable from the machine
    3. Wait for 60 seconds
    4. Re-plug the USB cable from the machine back into the PC
    5. Power up the machine

    The Device Manager will refresh momentarily. After so, if If the issue still exists, continue with the diagnostic steps.

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  1. In Device Manager, expand the node Imaging Devices, and select the machine’s camera. The selected camera will be highlighted “blue” as shown below.

  2. Click ViewDevices by connection, as shown below.

  3. The Device Manager will switch to a view similar to the following.

  4. Verify that USB 3.0 appears as the “hub” that leads to the device and SuperSpeed USB Hub appears as the intermediary node. And make Make sure the there are no additional “hub”s hubs between them other than those shown in the screenshot.

Verify Camera Driver Validity

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