So I bought a sweet TR2/B in Japan and immediately upgraded to Windows XP Professional.  I got all the working drivers from Sony America’s TR2/AP site - except the Motion Eye camera.

I’ve tried everything: doing the battery trick, changing the power management to Off, even trying basically every camera driver I can find on the American site to no avail.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

I did that trick too.  Even shutdown afterwards and pulled the battery like the other posts say, but to no avail.

Ok, You mean that you do not have any trace of webcam on your comp. Then you should do following. Please restore Japanese Windows, you should have an utility on special partion on your HD. And check if camera available. Then reinstall English Windows with SP1, then add Microsoft Camera Fix and other soft. In case you need Camera Fix mail me and I get it for you.

I pinged you on ICQ… I’d e-mail you but I don’t know your address.  Feel free to mail me - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

FOR ALL U sony people support tech out there..

I’d like to tell you 1 thing only if I may..

U PEOPLE SUCK !! in support..

My congrats to the genious who’s uploading drivers on the support page…

Keep up the good work…

where do you find the power option on the device manager page?
I have the USB (third one) pointing to camera, drivers for camera are there, but i couldn’t find how to turn off power management??

problem solved - found a link in another post to the sony ftp site with a patch for XP (for the TR2 actually), and it solved all problems

Just a reminder, to all those in need of Windows XP Pro Upgrade tutorial…navigate over to
1) Hexleyinmotion.com
2) Click on March Archives
3) Scroll to 03/06/2004 for the tutorial. Most of your questions should be answered.
Cheers
~nox

except how on earth do i get rid of my japanese language power panel?!