Guest John J Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Hi, Ever since I installed XP SP2, my external Firewire HD and camcorder connect/disconnect endlessly. If just one is plugged in, all is well. Before SP2, I could do this with no problem having them both hooked up. When I try to capture video from my cam while the external hard drive is plugged in, it sometimes will capture 5, maybe 20 minutes of video, then disconnects the hard disk randomly. This happens in Microsoft movie maker, and also in Avid Xpress Pro. It also does it if I have my external disk and an ADS Pyro analog/dv converter box hooked up to firewire. If I uninstall SP2, things go back to normal, but all my programs need SP2 now like Adobe Encore etc. Please help! I have an MSI Neo2 mother board with onboard Firewire. Each firewire device is plugged into a different port and not daisychained.
Guest Charles W Davis Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: After XP SP2, firewire keeps dropping devices, any ideas? Have you checked the Firewire device manufacturer's web site for a driver update? "John J" <John J@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2AD4686B-FE04-48F7-8848-592C8A38074E@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > Ever since I installed XP SP2, my external Firewire HD and camcorder > connect/disconnect endlessly. If just one is plugged in, all is well. > Before SP2, I could do this with no problem having them both hooked up. > When > I try to capture video from my cam while the external hard drive is > plugged > in, it sometimes will capture 5, maybe 20 minutes of video, then > disconnects > the hard disk randomly. This happens in Microsoft movie maker, and also > in > Avid Xpress Pro. It also does it if I have my external disk and an ADS > Pyro > analog/dv converter box hooked up to firewire. If I uninstall SP2, things > go > back to normal, but all my programs need SP2 now like Adobe Encore etc. > > Please help! > > I have an MSI Neo2 mother board with onboard Firewire. Each firewire > device > is plugged into a different port and not daisychained.
Guest John J Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: After XP SP2, firewire keeps dropping devices, any ideas? I did check with MSI and they just suggested a download of the latest chipset drivers. The only one even close that they had was one for the Ethernet adapter. My firewire enclosure is an off brand so there wouldn't be anything for that in the way of a special driver. "Charles W Davis" wrote: > Have you checked the Firewire device manufacturer's web site for a driver > update?
Guest Ghostrider Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: After XP SP2, firewire keeps dropping devices, any ideas? John J wrote: > I did check with MSI and they just suggested a download of the latest chipset > drivers. The only one even close that they had was one for the Ethernet > adapter. My firewire enclosure is an off brand so there wouldn't be anything > for that in the way of a special driver. > In Device Manager, click on the Firewire listing and find out who makes the Firewire Controller, e.g., Texas Instruments, Intel, Adaptec, etc. Get the updated drivers from the Firewire chipmaker's site.
Guest John J Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: After XP SP2, firewire keeps dropping devices, any ideas? Ok, I figured it out. I needed the old sp1 firewire device driver and sys file. It's all 'splained here http://www.videredesign.com/Vision%20Systems/xp2_workaround.htm Thanks everyone!
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