Why won't my laptop recognize my Nikon D40x?

Are you shooting in RAW?

your system might not support it.check on the pox or parcel that it cam in and see if your sytem supports the driver.if you dont have a driver for it then look and like google.com and serch for D40x driver for so n so.

hope this helps if now then e-mail me at fisherking221@yahoo.com

@boots: Negative. I’m shooting JPEG fine, and sometimes JPG normal.

@fluthermaster12103: My system should, and I have opened it on this computer before with no issues.

oh and i also had the same problem with my cam so try whats above and see if that is the problem

try and see is you saved them to another file or the firewall isent alowing you to show them this could work or not but try it i will look on line to see if i can find any info on this subject

If it matters, the same thing is true of my SD card reader; it lights up, but won’t appear in my finder window, and, when removed, I get a ‘device removal’ message.

it might be some where in another file and not the inder window ya i know it does not make a bit of since what i just said lol but see if you can find it in another file

Check online for a driver.

I have the same problem with my Nikon D40x. I think its the usb port of the actual camera! I use to have to hold it in and now it wont work at all.

I had that problem with my D40X too (I use an Apple computer). I went through the menu on the camera to change the USB setting and that took care of the problem.

On the camera:
-menu button
-wrench symbol
-USB
-I switched from MTP/PTP to Mass Storage, then the Nikon D40X icon started showing up on my computer screen again.