I need some assistance on choosing and buying a new webcam. I previously had one but my experience on it was so bad, it's device driver is not digitally signed for Windows XP, I ignored that warning and proceded with driver installation and after that it disabled the autoplay function for my CDROM and corrupted my Windows XP PRO! I want a decent webcam to be used in an internet chat and for online conferecing but has a device driver digitally signed for Windows XP and I'm ready to shell out $300 for it.

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