firewire and DV camera

[Rick]

Win Xp (sp1). My Pc has 5 firewire ports, when i connect
a digital video camera it is not seen by the PC at all
(deos not show up in device manager). Numerous web
searches have revealed this to be a common problem (refer
www.dvboard.com - under hardware - 1394 for examples).

I have tried 2 different DV cameras, moving the firewire
card to another pci slot. removing the device in device
manager and rebooting and letting win xp reload new
device found. 3 different firewire cables and all five
ports.

can anyone advise how to get dv camera seen by winxp - i
also have another similar pc with win 98 SE on it and it
works fine - have even swapped the firewire cards between
PC's to no avail- the win xp machine just wont "see" the
cameras

Thanks

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Is the camcorder turned on and in vcr mode?

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Rick" > wrote in message
...
> Win Xp (sp1). My Pc has 5 firewire ports, when i connect
> a digital video camera it is not seen by the PC at all
> (deos not show up in device manager). Numerous web
> searches have revealed this to be a common problem (refer
> www.dvboard.com - under hardware - 1394 for examples).
>
> I have tried 2 different DV cameras, moving the firewire
> card to another pci slot. removing the device in device
> manager and rebooting and letting win xp reload new
> device found. 3 different firewire cables and all five
> ports.
>
> can anyone advise how to get dv camera seen by winxp - i
> also have another similar pc with win 98 SE on it and it
> works fine - have even swapped the firewire cards between
> PC's to no avail- the win xp machine just wont "see" the
> cameras
>
> Thanks

[Rick]

Hi,

Yeah camera is set correctly. It works fine on the win98
SE machine (which i am selling shortly) . thats why i
want to get it running on the xp machine.

any other suggestion would help.. the www.dvboard.com
seems to have so many of these - most related to win xp
sp1 machines.

hope you guys can assist




>-----Original Message-----
>Is the camcorder turned on and in vcr mode?
>
>Cari
>www.coribright.com
>
>"Rick" > wrote in message
...
>> Win Xp (sp1). My Pc has 5 firewire ports, when i
connect
>> a digital video camera it is not seen by the PC at all
>> (deos not show up in device manager). Numerous web
>> searches have revealed this to be a common problem
(refer
>> www.dvboard.com - under hardware - 1394 for examples).
>>
>> I have tried 2 different DV cameras, moving the
firewire
>> card to another pci slot. removing the device in device
>> manager and rebooting and letting win xp reload new
>> device found. 3 different firewire cables and all five
>> ports.
>>
>> can anyone advise how to get dv camera seen by winxp -
i
>> also have another similar pc with win 98 SE on it and
it
>> works fine - have even swapped the firewire cards
between
>> PC's to no avail- the win xp machine just wont "see"
the
>> cameras
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
>.
>