Borrowed Firewire card in your PC works Ok but your Firewire Card in
his PC doesnt? That would tell me that it's
a problem with your Card.
"VC" <letters2vc[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Hi,
> I have a Dell 8250 with a Pinnacle Supplied FireWire (1394) PCI Card. This
> was a card that has been working on my Win98 and then moved to my WinXP.
> The last I used this for capturing video was Mar-2007.
> This weekend I hooked up my camcorder and was shocked to find that the PC
> did not recognize the camcorder. After further analysis, i found that the
> card is not listed in the device manager. It used be listed as IEEE 1394
> Host Controller and is not seen anymore.
> A lot of discussion topics pointed to the fact that XP SP2 and additional
> patches tend to remove hardware from the device list. I tried a few
> patches from Microsoft and is still not showing the card.
>
> To eliminate various factors, I borrowed a firewire card from a friend and
> hooked it into the PCI slot and that works fine. I tried installing my PCI
> card in his machine..... it fails to showup in the device listing....
>
> Either the card is blown up or the drivers are not yet happy with the
> current setting.....
>
> Any ideas to troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> V
>
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