I got parallels v3 audio and isight working!

by | Jul 19, 2007 | Technology

I got it all working… if anyone else is having the same problem with the isight or audio… this is what I did..

  1. uninstall parallel tools from windows xp (winxp)
  2. restart winxp
  3. shut down winxp
  4. uninstall parallels from the mac
  5. your VM should still exist after you do this. I backed up my winxp VM just in case it got deleted. I suggest you do the same if you have the space on your system.
  6. restart the mac
  7. delete the parallels application folder – if it still exists
  8. install the latest version of parallels (ver 3 rev. 4560)
  9. start up winxp
  10. reinstall parallel tools in winxp
  11. restart winxp

That should resolve the problems for you. That did for me. The isight and audio work just fine now. I guess the problem is that I did the upgrade to v3, instead of uninstalling and reinstalling. I would imagine that some of the old v2 parallel tool drivers aren’t working properly with v3.

if you’re having the same problem, give this a shot – let me know if it works for you.

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