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Hello all. Joined this forum as I just obtained two X120e's on the cheap, and love them. One runs Zorin OS15 Core, and the other has a Windows 10 32-bit install. Both were upgraded to 8GB RAM and run just fine on those sticks. Also replaced the old mechanical HDDs with SSD's. Now here's my issue ... the model running Win10 has an intermittent integrated camera. By "intermittent", I mean it works with some software and not with others. If I call up Windows own camera app, I can stare at my own video all day long. But if I try to use Skype, it says "no camera device found" even if the camera app is (or is not) running at the same time. I haven't been able to get it to work within Skype at all.

p.s. - The BIOS says it (the camera) is enabled, as I found the previous owner had said he had no Wifi but the internal Wifi FRU was disabled in BIOS. Weird. Works now just fine. But not the camera....

Thoughts? A search on "X120e and camera" doesn't give me anywhere to go. Thanks.

ETA: It's actually WIn 64, I was thrown off by the Win 32 directory on the HDD when I cloned it to the new SSD.

Well, I think I have it solved. I ran Windows update and it found a new driver for the camera. Still not sure why the old driver worked with "some" software, but what=the=hey, it seems to work now with both. Will follow up in a few days.

ETA: Okay, that worked yesterday, but doesn't seem to work today. Still the camera app works in video, and quickly. The Skype app doesn't seem to do video even when the camera app IS doing video.

Well a little more info. If I boot up this X120e and let it work through all of it's startup machinations, and then do nothing else but start (e.g.) Skype to use the integrated camera..... it works fine. If I start any other app, regardless if it uses the camera or not ... it may not may not work when I start Skype. Maybe 30:70 on if it starts.

Bugs me...