Tuesday 29 March 2011

Sony Vaio VGN-CR353 Webcam and Mass Storage Controller Drivers

Hey guys!

Today I just formatted my computer and installed the Windows 7 Professional OS onto it. I must say I'm loving the lack of lag that was plaguing my Vista. However, Taking almost the whole afternoon, evening, night and now the unholy hours of morning, I was trying to piece my laptop back together again and problems arose.

First of all, my webcam lacked a proper driver! (It was installed as some USB webcam thing) and secondly, the Mass Storage Controller also lacked a driver thus failing to install completely!

I just want to share the fruits of my extensive internet combing and hopefully these will help you if your search landed you here! My laptop model is the Sony Vaio VGN-CR353.

This is a link to multiple driver downloads, just scroll to about 3/4 ways down and you'll see the camera driver. Installing it allowed use of my "Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC6".

http://www.laptop-driver.net/sony-vaio-vgncr363-drivers/

This is the link for the Mass Storage Controller. It comes with 32 and 64-bit installs. Just copy the link into your browser. Installed is the "Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller"

download.xanderx.com/software/windows/driver/CardReader_V.zip


Hope this helps someone somewhere who is in the same bind that I was.

Do comment and tell me if it did.


~Fox
Posted by Fox at 02:12
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29 comments:

  1. iamHAILA11 April 2011 at 03:03

    Hi,

    I had the same problem as yours. I successfully installed the camera but my problem now is that I couldn't find the camera. I want to adjust or change some settings in the camera. Hope you could help me. Thanks...

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  2. Fox11 April 2011 at 09:15

    Hi Johalia,

    I think your webcam can be configured using the program you want to use the webcam with. e.g. You can change the settings for it on MSN messenger and so on.

    Hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous8 June 2011 at 17:30

    Hi,
    Thanks a lot buddy.. Your Blog helped me in resolving the issue.
    Regards,
    Bharat Pujari

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  4. Fox8 June 2011 at 20:30

    Hi Bharat,

    I'm glad it helped! Thanks for your comment :)

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  5. CarlCamper21 June 2011 at 04:51

    The Webcam drivers don't work for 64-bit...

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  6. Fox21 June 2011 at 10:57

    Yeah I suppose that particular driver I found was for my 32-bit. It was only by chance the Mass Storage Controller came with 64-bit :)

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  7. Anonymous6 July 2011 at 11:57

    aha.... thanks fox.. now it works.
    btw, I have another question for u. my cr353 keeps shutting down randomly? do u experience the same problem? a lot off people do. (sorry this is out of the way, but im just curious)
    thanks.
    regards,
    j.roy

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  8. Fox6 July 2011 at 16:23

    Hey ya Roy!

    Shutting down randomly? That is really strange... I've never experience such a thing before other than the time I tried to run a high spec game on it and it blue screened and restarted.

    Did your CR353 do that when you got it? Or it started after you installed something or is it from with age?

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  9. Anonymous26 July 2011 at 13:43

    I HAVE SONY VAIO CR353 FEW DAYS BACK I INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE (SERVICE PACK 1)32 BIT , BUT NOW MY CAMERA UTILITY IS NOT WORKING AT ALL..PLEASE HELP.IF I NEED DRIVERS FOR IT THEN HOW AND WHERE I COULD GET IT..PLEASE HELP

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  10. Fox26 July 2011 at 14:02

    Did you actually read the post before posting in all caps? -___-

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  11. Anonymous8 August 2011 at 10:13

    Tnx man

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  12. Anonymous19 August 2011 at 17:04

    JRoy
    I am facing the exact same problem as you have mentioned - cr353 keeps shutting down randomly. I have read your posts on other forums as well and I must say it is identical - the laptop always heated a lot but this problem started after I installed Windows 7. Just wondering if you were able to find a solution? Please share any information you have. Your help is appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Sha

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  13. Anonymous9 September 2011 at 08:31

    Hi Fox

    the camera driver link
    http://download.sony-asia.com/vaio/downloads/Original_Drivers/073Q/VGN-CR3/drivers/Camera.EXE

    is not there anymore. is there an alternative link for the same file? would appreciate some help. thanks.

    tony

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  14. Fox9 September 2011 at 12:53

    Hey Tony,

    That link still works for me, is your download blocked by your firewall automatically?

    Let me know,
    Fox

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  15. Anonymous8 October 2011 at 21:11

    hi fox i ave installed windz 7 in my vgn cr 353 and after using it for a month or so my webcam didnt work....after goin thru ur comments i downloaded the camera drivers and then tried to install....however it says works only on vista....
    i m a novice in computrs...have very lil knowledge of it...
    plz help..
    thanx.

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  16. Fox8 October 2011 at 23:17

    Hi,

    If you've downloaded this: http://download.sony-asia.com/vaio/downloads/Original_Drivers/073Q/VGN-CR3/drivers/Camera.EXE

    Then it should work as I, myself have installed it and the camera works fine. Don't worry about it saying working for Vista. Hope it helps.

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  17. Anonymous5 November 2011 at 21:21

    the link: download.xanderx.com/software/windows/driver/CardReader_V.zip


    Fixed my missing Mass Storage driver issue. thanks for your time and energe!

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  18. Fox6 November 2011 at 23:44

    No problem! Glad you found it useful :>

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  19. Alvin Kon22 November 2011 at 01:17

    Thanks for the info. really appreciate it.

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  20. Fox22 November 2011 at 14:13

    Alvin Koh:
    Very much welcome :>

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  21. Anonymous12 January 2012 at 18:17

    Thanks for your valuable time you spent...... my camera problem got solved and also mass storage problem..... but while opening a video chat with any one either in facebook or skpe, i am not able to do it....it says some problem with recording device.....can u please help me .....

    Ritesh R Kumar
    India
    ritesh.kumar25@gmail.com

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  22. Fox17 January 2012 at 02:19

    Hi Kumar,

    Thanks for your comment! :D I think that problem should be fixed from within the settings. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to solve that as I have not encountered this problem after installing the drivers.

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  23. Anonymous2 February 2012 at 06:08

    Hi fox, thanks much :)

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  24. Anonymous6 January 2013 at 14:34

    ty friend works on VGN-CR25L window 7 32 bit :)

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  25. Anonymous11 July 2013 at 06:17

    Thank you, the below link worked very well, laptop-sony cr120e 64 bit windows 7

    This is the link for the Mass Storage Controller. It comes with 32 and 64-bit installs. Just copy the link into your browser. Installed is the "Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller"

    download.xanderx.com/software/windows/driver/CardReader_V.zip

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  26. Fox13 July 2013 at 08:37

    To all they "thank you's"

    You guys are very welcome :) Hope this little post helped you!

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  27. Ram21 August 2013 at 09:47

    Web cam driver is not there the link u have given is showing to buy that domain....

    plz help me with that and i need camera driver for my VGNCR353 urgently...

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  28. shikhiagarwal14 April 2014 at 12:16

    Hi fox.... i have the same model... and have just recently switched to Windows 7 professional. My camera worked after installing the camera drivers and multiple windows update. But i am unable to get my bluetooth work in my system. Bluetooth doesn't list out in my Device managers list (have already tried running the bluetooth driver available on sony-asia site for this sony vaio series)

    Could you please help me by providing the correct driver.
    It would be of great help if anyone can provide me the drivers.

    Thanks
    Shikhi

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