Guest Sunshine Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 I downloaded XP SP3. Now my computer will not start;it is stuck at the XP splash screen. If I remove the firewire cable from the external drive and connect using USB instead, my computer starts and the external drives works properly. Iconnect using a USB 2.0/FireWire PCI Card. Help
Guest RangerGord Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 Re: Cannot connect using FireWire Re: Cannot connect using FireWire On Jun 8, 3:40 am, "Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I downloaded XP SP3. Now my computer will not start;it is stuck at the XP > splash screen. If I remove the firewire cable from the external drive and > connect using USB instead, my computer starts and the external drives works > properly. Iconnect using a USB 2.0/FireWire PCI Card. Help Sounds like you have a driver problem. I would uninstall the firewire driver (or "IEEE 1394 ..............." in Windows talk) then reboot and let Windows reinstall it. If that doesn't work maybe your external hard drive (I assume that is what is connected to the 1394 slot - it wasn't clear) needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled also. I would try doing the uninstall in Safe Mode
Guest paul Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Re: Cannot connect using FireWire Re: Cannot connect using FireWire I may have found a solution that worked for me. After upgrading to XP sp3 my computer would not boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, after reading through countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on Western digitals site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to revert to an older version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the uninstall directory on my C drive. Just replace this version with the version SP3 installed and everything works now. I can restart my computer now with my firewire drive plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems to be working fine. Good luck
Guest Sunshine Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 Re: Cannot connect using FireWire Re: Cannot connect using FireWire Thanks, I'm in business! "paul" <paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F1960C80-715C-4ED5-A05D-6F3F45982BC2@microsoft.com... >I may have found a solution that worked for me. After upgrading to XP sp3 >my > computer would not boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, > after > reading through countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on > Western digitals site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to > revert to an older version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the > uninstall directory on my C drive. Just replace this version with the > version > SP3 installed and everything works now. I can restart my computer now with > my > firewire drive plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems > to > be working fine. Good luck >
Guest paul Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Re: Cannot connect using FireWire Re: Cannot connect using FireWire "Just to add a data point: the PCs I have updated to SP3 have no difficulty booting with Firewire disks attached, and allocating drive letters to them. So this is not a consistent problem: there must be some other factor (apart from the sbp2 driver) which triggers this issue." I agree same with me. One computer no problem other identical computer problem.
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