Firewire Question? Help Needed!

[winterdragon 0]

To anyone that has any idea how to help me.

I have a TRV-33. I have a Dell Laptop with windows vista on it and I just bought an express card with a 6-pin firewire connection in it so that I could hook my camera up to my laptop when I plug in my camcorder and try to transfer video it says that it can not find the camera. The cable and camera work fine on my XP desktop so it has to be with windows vista (POS in my opinion) Does anyone have any ideas how to make this work. I have tried turning off my firewall to see if that is what is causing the problem and still does not work. Thank you in advance for any help or ideas and if I figure something out I will post back so that others may have help.

[dragon2 2]

I have the same setup on my laptop, works fine for me. What software are you using to capture? Is it vista proof? The hardware is properly detected, no exclamation marks in Device Manager?

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[DSE 5]

As Saskia mentioned, check for Vista drivers on your 1394 card (but unless it's really an obscure card, they should be part of Vista).
Turn off networking on the 1394 bus.
Be sure you have admin rights.
Turn off User Account Control.
Apparently Microsoft doesn't ship the low-level AVC drivers in Vista Home, dunno if that affects it or not? You might try doing an update. I recall seeing a specific problem with the Dell version of Vista home on a website. Googling "Dell, firewire, Vista, can't see camera" gave me quite a few hits, but I didn't trace any of em.

[winterdragon 0]

Thanks I will try it when I get home today. Let you know what happens.

[winterdragon 0]

Thank you for the help everyone. I uninstalled all things related to the firewire card and rebooted. I then reinserted the card into the computer and let vista download the driver instead of using the disk provided. (that is where the problem was, the disk was loading a driver for the 9 pin connection on the card.) everything is running good now. Time to start editing. Blue skies