Firewire help

[Nicol@]

I posted a question a couple of weeks ago regarding getting my Canon camcorder to talk to my computer. The pc wanted a camera driver and I couldn't find one.

I plugged the camera into another computer and it worked without any problems, so I came to the conclusion that the Firewire card was at fault.

I have bought installed a new card (Belkin).

When the pc is switched on it recognises new hardware as a IEEE 1394 controller, but it then asks for a driver.
There doesn't appear to be one on the cd that came with it.

Why does my computer not like firewire cards anymore?

[pdV6]

Have a look at Belkin's site or thereabouts for the correct driver.

[Nicol@]

pdV6 said:

Have a look at Belkin's site or thereabouts for the correct driver.

Thanks, I had seen that last night, as it didn't match exactly I didn't download. Will it do any harm if wrong?

Update..
I have downloaded both the drivers and neither matches what the card wants.

Where else can I look?

Edited by Nicol@ on Wednesday 2nd May 20:01

[Pug106]

Have you done a google search for both the Firewire & Camcorder drivers? I'm sure they'll be out the somewhere!

Keep us posted!

[PJ S]

Can you tell us the exact model # of the card you bought.
Was it this or this?
Neither one has a driver - both P&P for Windows.
I did tell you in the other thread though, that you should've bought a Mac and saved yourself this hassle in the first place, didn't I?

Given your camera works fine in another PC, then you've a hardware issue (BIOS setting perhaps?) or the motherboard itself, or your Windows install is fecked (not uncommon) and a simple reinstall may do the trick.

Edited by PJ S on Wednesday 2nd May 22:33

[Nicol@]

PJ, I have the card from your clicky link 1.
Everything I have is supposed to be plug and play...grrr (Pug, there are no drivers for any of it)

Would a windows update over the last 7 months done something to stop firewire cards working on my pc? As my original firewire card worked fine last summer.

Meanwhile the camcorder footage to transfer is growing.

Edited by Nicol@ on Thursday 3rd May 08:57

[PJ S]

Nicol@ said:

PJ, I have the card from your clicky link 1.
Everything I have is supposed to be plug and play...grrr (Pug, there are no drivers for any of it)

Would a windows update over the last 7 months done something to stop firewire cards working on my pc? As my original firewire card worked fine last summer.

Meanwhile the camcorder footage to transfer is growing.

Possibly - if the download was corrupted or the install/update went wonky.
One way to try and resolve it is to get another HDD, install that and then install Windows on it.
If it works fine as is, then do your transfer and editing, then update the OS as before.
If the same thing happens, then you know that's the problem and can relay the info to MS for them to fix.
If not, then you know something went wrong first time round. Wipe the OS (retain user data) from the original HDD, and just use the new HDD that works fine as the boot drive.
You'll need to change the BIOS first time round of course, so you're booting from the new OS install - in fact you'll need to make sure the Optical drive is chosen as the first place it looks.
Install OS onto new drive and then change BIOS to reflect this.
There's a fair bit of work there - but it's better than going bald from all the hair pulling, which never looks attractive on a girl, IMO.

[Nicol@]

PJ S said:

There's a fair bit of work there - but it's better than going bald from all the hair pulling, which never looks attractive on a girl, IMO.

Yes lots of work there, don't know if I could manage that, but there is no better alternative.

Thanks for the instructions. as you said, it saves my hair...lol