Solution: Sony camcorder, firewire, XP SP2

Mozzie01 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006, 08:00 PM

I have read a lot on this forum about problems with firewire, XP SP2 and Sony camcorders. I too had this frustrating problem, which has now been solved.

I recently bought an AMD64X2 4000+, 2Gb RAM, dual SATA disks, running Windows XP SP2 to further my video editing hobby. The problem I had was that the capturing software did not recognise the video device. I used the same Sony DCR-TRV830 camera and firewire cable on my old Windows ME PC and this worked well (albeit rather slowly).

I eventually solved the problem when I exchanged the firewire cards between the two PCs.

The 5 year old Belkin F5U501 Rev 1.4 firewire card immediately detected the video device and I had no prolem with capturing. The new VIA VT6306 firewire card does not work with either XP or ME.

Hope this helps someone!

Brian Gardner · #2 (**permalink**) 06-02-2006, 10:45 PM

had the same problem but was using on board ( ASUS ) motherboard IEE port,

I bought a PCI Belkin 3 port IEE i-link card and now everything is fine.

minsh · #3 (**permalink**) 06-03-2006, 02:51 AM

I still have problems with my firewire cable. lol

freevideoworkshop · #4 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007, 02:45 AM

Usually firewire ports built into motherboards are reliable. They're supposed to have been tested to work with recognised DVcam models. I use a TUL Xpress Mainboard 200 with IEEE 1394 port (x1) and so far have no problem using it with my Sony TRV 520 (Digital 8 camera). I recommend this motherboard to anyone who's building a PC editing system and want a built-in-firewire motherboard.

Athlon XP 64 3000+. 1GB RAM, 160GB SATA HDD, 128MB shared VGA

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