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January 3rd, 2014 21:00

Windows 8.1 installing Validity Sensor Error

Hi,

I have fresh installation of Windows 8.1 (64bit) onto my Vostro V131. I was able to install all the drivers expect of Fingerprint driver. When I download the driver from the support page - driver FPS_W8_X01_A00_Setup-3FJM6_ZPE.exe and run it, the result of installing Validity Sensors DDK is a message which says: "This software requires Microsoft Windows XP with SP3, Vista or Windows 7." and finishes the installation.

It is pretty annoying that I downloaded the W8 64 bit version, what says the first screen in installation process as well but the overall process finishes with such an error message.

Any suggestions?

Or did anybody successfully installed fingerprint on W8.1 64 bit?

thanks

martin

  • fechner

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    Posted January 31st, 2014 13:00

    Hi,

    I have a DELL Vostro 3560 with Vallidity Fingerprint sensor.

    Under Win8 64Bit, I haven't had any problems.

    After installimg Win8.1 64Bit, I was able to install the driver, but it didn't work (only sometimes and only for Win-logon, not for the applications).

    After a lot of EMails with DELL support, they agreed, that the driver doesn't work, I should wait for a driver in the future.

    Regards

    Juergen

  • sotgiumarco

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    Posted May 4th, 2014 04:00

    Hello, I have a similar issue - since 2 weeks ago I had a 8.1 Pro on a Vostro 3560 but later I've had to reinstall the OS. Since when I reinstalled the OS, the driver is not working anymore and the driver installation reflects the same error as from the first post. It was working before the re-installation and it was working fine - now it's not working anymore and I don't have any feedback about how to get out from this... Hoping to have news from Dell Support very soon. Thanks, Marco.
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    Posted February 2nd, 2015 17:00

    Installed on vostro v131 windows 8.1 x64.

    At the beginning, I couldnt setup the fingerprint logon with automatic drivers, I dont know why.  Tried driver for win 8, but ir gave me the error message. Then installed Dell driver for win7 using compability install option. Did not work . I rolled back driver to the previous version . It was synaptics driver which was automatically installed by windows 8.1. 

    Synaptics FP Sensors (WBF) (PID=0011)

    Provider: Synaptics FP Sensors
    Date: 19.01.2015

    Version: 4.5.282.0

    Hardware IDs:
    USB\VID_138A&PID_0011&REV_0078

    It worked perfectly for account logon.

    P.S
    Dell supported drivers does not work very well, especially for windows 8 (8.1). 

    Luckily, windows 8.1 installed most of the drivers. The only one i had to install manually was accelerometer . Win7 x64 version worked on win8.1 as far as i remember