===================================MikeyUK said:Hi all,
I am new to this forum, have a problem similar to most of you with
detection of Camera. Have recently bought a HP550 Laptop, running XP
Professional with all updates loaded and running.
My Firewire 1394a card is a plug in to the Laptop Express Card slot.
The card has 2 ports, both 6 pin Firewire female.
Have cable 6 pin to 4 pin Firewire.
When the card was first plugged in, system found it o.k. camera was
connected by (4 pin DV cable) and system worked perfectly with MS
'Movie Maker' . I shut down and returned a few hours later, powered
up Laptop but no sign of Firewire card.
My camera is a JVC Digital model GR-DVX9E, and was/is running on
mains/adaptor.
Have spent 'days' of research trying to fix this 'non detection'
problem, has anyone found a solution please ?
Mike
=============================================MikeyUK said:John,
thanks for your response, already followed your suggestion .... there
is no sign of the card in device manager. However the PCI standard
PCI-to-PCI Bridge is showing a 'yellow' exclamation mark.
Someone (earlier) suggested uninstalling this item and let XP
re-install at next start up, this I did but no change in status. In
fact my Laptop has not detected the 1394 card since the one and only
first attempt.
Mike
====================================================MikeyUK said:John,
this problem is making me dizzy ...
Last evening I had another try to let XP 'recognise' the Firewire
card.
Started up Laptop then plugged in card and instantly recognised !!!
Removed card, and then re-inserted, again o.k. No error messages in
device manager. Connected up DV camera to card and re-inserted to
Laptop, card recognised.
Tried WMMaker, error message 'video capture device was not detected'
At least I appear to have made a step forward, but still problem not
fixed
Mike