Crystal Eye Fades Out

I have an AAO ZG5, XP Home, 160GB. I have not used the web cam for nearly a year. Tonight I opened up the Crystal Eye (SuYin v1.0.1.5) and it worked fine in the Windows folder, in Windows Movie maker preview screen, and in Web Cam Capture software. I previewed my portrait live and captured a couple stills. I turned it off and a short while later turned it on again only to find the preview image barely visible, black all around and only bright objects close to the camera would show. I rebooted and tried it again only to find the camera was not detected. Not in device manager either and apps that use the camera(windows movie maker) could not find it. I uninstalled the driver, rebooted and reinstalled the driver with e-recovery. E-recovery could not find the camera! It told me to plug the camera into the USB port to proceed. Where did it go? It was just working.

thanks
Brandon

 

Now the occasional unrecognized USB error bubble is popping up. USB device not recognized or not functioning. Is that camera toast?