Hi,

I have recently bought my first camcorder, a sony HC-19E and have bought and installed a firewire card with help from previous topics on this forum.

The installation appears to have worked as I can see the IEEE1394 HOST CONTROLLER in Device Manager.

The problem I have is that when I plug my camcorder into the firewire port my computer is not recognising it and Pinnacle Studio 8 has the same problem.

I pressume windows should recognise a camcorder connected to a firewire port the same way it recognises something connected to the USB port.

I am using XP and the firewire card is the basic one from Ebuyer that came supplied with a cable.

Im worried the cable may be faulty as I suspect Ebuyer may have sent me a box that has been returned as although it included the PCI card and the cable it did not have the manual that the box said it should include.

I have already tried uninstalling and re-installing the firewire card and have restarted the computer with the camera connected.

Any other ideas?

Many Thanks


James

Some possibilities.

It certainly looks as though windows has recognised the card. And yes when connected the camera would show as a connected device. Does the device manager report any problems with the card? If not,

1. Have you checked that your cam is set to Play/VCR mode when attached to the Firewire card?

2. You may have a dodgy cable!

3. You may have a dodgy camera!

4. You could try the Firewire card in another PCI slot.


Good luck

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