losing firewire devices

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jd

Does anyone know why I keep losing my firewire devices?
They will show up in the Device Manager with an
exclamation point...and then I have to uninstall then
reinstall the device to use it again.

I am using two devices...an external WD drive and an
external QuieFire (QPS) CDRW.

I saw where Microsoft acknowledged this as a problem one
of their IEEE KB articles, but I didnt' see where it was
resolved. They said to unplug and replug the device;
however, this problem occurs all of the time.

Thanks for any help...-jd
 
You may want to give this a try. It works with CDRW's not wanting to work
all the time.
Unplug your firewire devices and reboot the computer. As it leaves the boot
screen, press F8 and boot into Safe Mode. Open System Properties, Hardware
tab, Device Manager. Expand the IEEE 1394 Bus Host entry and right click on
the device and Uninstall it. Ok the windows and reboot the computer and let
XP reinstall the 1394 firewire controller.

Rich
 
Nortons work ok here Kurt. I use 2003
Never had a prob with it, with this firewire

Nortons 2002 I think, also works
with XP. I had it installed before
without probs. I would say it was
either the upgrade from 2; to XP.

Or the install of Nortons u had was faulty,
or it may have been auto-protect?
running in the background, if you installed
programs, with it on.
 
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