P4C800E Deluxe, why is not the firewire connection unable?

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Fogar

Hi,
I'd like to use my camera as a webcam but I have noticed the firewire
connection (in the back side of motherboard) is not unable.
A friend of mine use this connection.
Why please?
What have I do to unable that connection, please?
I have installed the motherboard drivers.
thanks for some info.

bye Fogar
 
Check that it is enabled in the BIOS. However mine has never worked and I
use a separate PCI card.
Barry
 
Check that firewire is enabled in your BIOS.

Check that the wires going from the socket on the support bracket are
properly connected.

Otherwise, you *may* potentially have damaged the firewire port controller
circuitry on the motherboard. Firewire is supposed to be 'hot swappable'
but there are a number of manufacturers who pretty much say it isn't
reliable and not to do it. I have directly known three separate
occurrrances where hot swapping firewire devices has either permanently
killed the connection at the device end or the circuitry on the board. One
of these devices was my own and the others were friends' equipment on their
PC's. I have personal experience too with a PCI card which killed the
firewire port on a multi channel audio interface despite it being connected
and switched on before the PC as recommended by M-Audio the manufacturer.
There seems to be no hard and fast rule, but peripheral device manufacturers
in the audio interface industry often warn against hot swapping. See the
article in this month's Sound on Sound magazine for more information
www.soundonsound.com . I now only use the four pin (non powered) connection
where available as this reduces the risks of damaging expensive peripheral
devices.
 
Check that firewire is enabled in your BIOS.

Check that the wires going from the socket on the support bracket are
properly connected.

Otherwise, you *may* potentially have damaged the firewire port controller
circuitry on the motherboard. Firewire is supposed to be 'hot swappable'
but there are a number of manufacturers who pretty much say it isn't
reliable and not to do it. I have directly known three separate
occurrrances where hot swapping firewire devices has either permanently
killed the connection at the device end or the circuitry on the board. One
of these devices was my own and the others were friends' equipment on their
PC's. I have personal experience too with a PCI card which killed the
firewire port on a multi channel audio interface despite it being connected
and switched on before the PC as recommended by M-Audio the manufacturer.
There seems to be no hard and fast rule, but peripheral device manufacturers
in the audio interface industry often warn against hot swapping. See the
article in this month's Sound on Sound magazine for more information
www.soundonsound.com . I now only use the four pin (non powered) connection
where available as this reduces the risks of damaging expensive peripheral
devices.
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I have the same problem with my P4P800-E Deluxe.

What I have to do to get it to work is make sure the firewire device is
plugged in and powered on. Then go to Control Panel > System > Hardware >
Device Manager double click on "IEE 1394 Bus host controllers" and your
motherboards IEEE 1394 controller should show up. Right click on it and
select "Disable" click yes in the pop up window. When the device shows a red
"X" right click on it and select "Enable" Your device should be found.

Andy
 
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