HELP! FIREWIRE & VISTA

[hitmandk1985]

Hi all,

I recently bought a PC With Vista on it.

I am trying to connect a Firewire DV cam to my new pc.

But when I connect the camera and turn it to the correct mode, Vista does not detect it!

I have the drivers installed, and it worked fine in XP

Any ideas what it could be?

Thanks

[jw_2000_uk]

Hi, Could be incorrect drivers,Corrupt drivers,Corrupt firewire port.


Is it vista 32 or 64 bit,They may have separate drivers etc.

Could be alot m8.

[hitmandk1985]

Its Home Premium 32bit

The thing thats bothering me is Windows isnt detecting so it cant be the drivers since its not even recognising that a device has been plugged in

[evilsatan]

Has the firewire card been installed correctly? Right click Computer, goto properties, then click device manager. This will show you what hardware is installed, if any have a yellow mark on them then they aren ot installed.

Try finding your firewire card in the list and right click, update driver. Failing that if it is a pre-build goto the manufacturers website looking for software downloads for that card, if it was a custom build find the product page for the card and look for downloads.

[hitmandk1985]

The PC I bought was a Packard Bell iMax

It all came preinstalled basically and I have done all the latest updates on it.

I will check what you said but from what I remember everything seemed to be ok

[jw_2000_uk]

[quote=hitmandk1985;2712665]"The PC I bought was a Packard Bell iMax"

there's ur problem lol.

Does sound like a messed firewire install or port is buggered

Or the camera itself maybe.Can you plug it in via USB?

[Lochinvar]

This may not help but I had the same problem, changed the PCI slot of the firewire card on my motherboard once still it couldn't find it. tried a few drivers to no avail it even recognised the card in device manager but wouldn't see my camera. As a last resort I changed the position of the card on my motherboard restarted and it's worked a treat since then.