Are that came with this particular camera installed on your computer? CD disk in box? If it didn't come with any try here.

Check to make sure the camera is in "playback" mode.

I have a Cannon and I found I had to install the TWAIN driver that came with the camera. The existing drivers did not see the camera. I have not tried to access the camera other than by Cannon's transfer window software. I just plug the camera in and turn it on and the window pops up asking if I want to download to the harddrive.

If the driver is installed and the window doesn't pop up on your computer after attaching via USB Click:
Start
Programs
Canon Utilities
CameraWindow
CameraWindow

"Are THE DRIVERS that came". . .sorry for the omission.

There was a CD in the box, but there is no CD-Rom drive in my computer, so the CD is rather useless (I don't have enough slots in the case, since I have four hard drives). Normaly I download drivers and software from the internet.

However, the only download is the TWAIN driver. And that dosn't work. It seems to connect, when I plug the camera in playback mode stops working. I can't navigate anywhere or zoom or do anything by pressing the buttons on the camera.

Whenever I try to make a TWAIN connection the screen on the camera turns off, and won't come back on unless I turn the camera off, and turn it back on again.

I wonder if there's some sort of incompatability with my USB port or something.

Dude, you gotta treat the pictures nice. Start slow. Dress nice and smell good. Compliment them. Take them out for a nice dinner with a bottle of wine. Give them a nice massage.

Or just slip 'em a couple of roofies and then you won't have to worry about anyone but yourself.

fucking-a. I'm going to take my CD, my camera, and a portable hard drive to work and see what happens.

bbl.

Here's a guess, but my camera kept shutting down while I'd attempt to connect and it was because the batteries were low. From your description though that doesn't seem to be the problem.

Also it looks from Canon's site that the drivers are for Windows 98 and Windows 2000. . .it's a new camera though. Maybe Canon doesn't have the right driver up.

On preview: Good idea checking it out on another computer. Good luck!

If you're using XP, it says to uninstall the TWAIN and use the WIA.

"USB TWAIN Driver

The USB TWAIN Driver is not compatible with Windows XP. If the driver was installed on your computer, it must be uninstalled with the following procedures before installing the USB WIA Driver, which is the Windows XP compatible driver.

Uninstalling the USB TWAIN Driver

1. Attach the supplied USB cable to the computer's USB port and the camera's Digital Terminal, and set the camera to Replay mode.
2. If an application program such as ZoomBrowser EX starts, close it. If a window opens, cancel it.
3. Click the [Start] menu and select [Control Panel].
4. Click the [Printers and Other Hardware] icon.
5. Click the [Scanners and Cameras] icon.
6. Select the icon of your camera model, right-click on the icon of your camera and select [Delete]. Then close the window.
7. Click the [Start] menu and select [All Programs], [Canon Utilities], [Digital Camera USB Driver], and [USB Driver Uninstall]. Then the uninstall procedure will start."

"To connect your compatible Canon digital camera with a Windows XP pre-installed computer via USB cable, you need to install the appropriate USB WIA driver on your computer.

This section does not apply for the following cameras: PowerShot SD10, PowerShot A80, PowerShot G5, PowerShot S50, PowerShot S400, PowerShot A70, PowerShot A60 and PowerShot A300.

Installing the USB WIA Driver

Note: If you have previously installed a USB TWAIN driver for your camera, it must be uninstalled first before installing the USB WIA Driver. See Section 1.1.2.1 for instructions on uninstalling the USB TWAIN driver.
Note: Users of Windows XP Professional must first log in as an administrator to install programs.

For all customers of PowerShots not listed further below

1. Download the appropriate WIA driver that matches your camera model.
2. Double-click the downloaded file to expand and generate an uncompressed folder on your PC.
3. Open the uncompressed folder and double-click setup.exe to begin installation.
4. Once the installation has finished, attach the supplied USB cable to the computer's USB port and the camera's Digital Terminal, and set the camera to Replay mode.
5. The driver will be installed on your computer automatically"

it's not XP, it's 2000

Of course, here at work I have XP

I had problems with a canon scanner on my home machine as well, and the thing worked perfictly on other machines.

My goodness that was fast, do you live next door to your job? ;-)

I love the Canons, I can't wait to trade my SD500 in for the 550. I need to find out if baby drool is covered in my extended warranty.

My goodness that was fast, do you live next door to your job? ;-)

Yup, I live a block away.

This thing seems like a real POS to me. Maybe it's just that its so small. no way to get as high a quality of a lense in there as with my old sony DSC-V1. Oh well.

Check out all the noise and weird artifacts in this picture. I think I have some old night time long-shutter images from the v1 sitting around somewhere that I'll try to dig up