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PCs & Mobiles Forum - Just fitted PCI card. Now what? - Page 1
Competent
I've fitted a firewire PCI card to enable me to connect a camcorder to my pc. However the camcorder isn't recognised at all when connected. I'm guessing it's the firewire card as it works fine on my laptop. There wasn't any confirmation on re-starting that changes had been made so is there something obvious here that I haven't done? There's not a lot of info with the card.
Elite
Hi
Is the card in your device manager?
Right click on your 'my computer' then properties and hardware tab. If it has got a yellow ! icon then it needs the drivers installing. Did the card come with a disk?
Cheers
Nick
Competent
It's on the device manager list and is 'working properly'. Unfortunately I've only got one firewire device to try it on. Is it worth trying a different slot? I did notice a couple of jumpers on the board but have no idea what they are.
Competent
is the camcorder on and on playback or memory mode?
and pluged in nice and tight?
This item was edited on Saturday, 5th May 2007, 16:26
Competent
Yep, all secure and rigged up the same as when using the laptop.
Elite
Are you showing any firewire ports in your device manager?
Nick
Competent
The only mention of firewire stuff is "IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers" which expands to
"VIA OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 Bus host controller".
Right just raved the card out again and the above disappears in device manager so it must be acknowledged. The jumpers on the board are to switch 12v onto the ports. The card has 3 external and 1 internal port and the jumpers are configured so that only the internal port is 12v powered. Should they all be? I don't really want to nazz the camcorder. The card also claims to have re-settable fuses for each port but I can't see those.
This item was edited on Sunday, 6th May 2007, 12:33
