Hello there,
If you connect the camera whilst it is turned off and then turn it on into VCR
mode, do you get the musical note that XP plays? I expect your answer will be
No.
Problems others have had include...
A) The front Firewire port was not actually connected to the motherboard (On
board Firewire card)
B) The "On Board" firewire adapter works fine with everything except a camera!
(Solution was to disable the "On Board" card and purchase a PCI card
(Firewire))
C) Using the wrong fire wire cable. (Check manual if existing cable did not
come with the camera)
D) The card was not seated properly in the PCI slot
E) The firewire card was not recognized/installed properly by XP (Check the
device manager, if it shows OK still consider removing it anyway. Remove it
from the device manager, remove the card and then reboot a couple of times then
replace card, XP should automatically install the needed driver)
Hope one of the above helps. If not, do please say so.