1394 device not recognized or SYSTEM CRASH

[RLK]

just upgraded my mobo to asus p5ad2
my old Nikon scanner (coolscan 4000 ED firewire) is not recognized
when you plug it into the 1394 port on the motherboard. the firewire
driver I am using is from asus (Unibrain 800) if I switch to the Texas
Instruments OHCI driver XP crashes with a sbp2port.sys error when the
scanner is plugged in.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Oh using XP professional service pack 2

 

[Noozer]

just upgraded my mobo to asus p5ad2

Did you format and reinstall XP?

Didn't think so.

BTW, SP2 is a piece o' crap.

 

[Paul]

just upgraded my mobo to asus p5ad2
my old Nikon scanner (coolscan 4000 ED firewire) is not recognized
when you plug it into the 1394 port on the motherboard. the firewire
driver I am using is from asus (Unibrain 800) if I switch to the Texas
Instruments OHCI driver XP crashes with a sbp2port.sys error when the
scanner is plugged in.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Oh using XP professional service pack 2

http://www.msnusers.com/WindowsSupp...Message=1829&LastModified=4675486106236940282

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040823/index.html

I'm guessing you have the Premium, with its 1394B chip. Maybe that
has something to do with your problem. Perhaps returning to SP1 is
the right answer for now. Or buying a 400mbs firewire card :-(

HTH,
Paul

 

[P2B]

Did you format and reinstall XP?

Didn't think so.

BTW, SP2 is a piece o' crap.

Care to elaborate on your (apparently negative) SP2 experience?

I'm seriously considering migrating all my systems from NT4 SP6a to XP
Pro SP2.

I'm testing XP on the bench from a clean install with SP2 slipstreamed.
To date I have seen only minor, easily resolved, problems with hardware
and software compatibility, and no stability issues. Looks quite
promising from that perspective.

Security is my primary reason for considering an OS upgrade, given
Microsoft no longer provides updates for NT4 Workstation. Unfortunately
the SP2 desktop firewall is broken in several fundamental ways, but
disabling it and installing the third party product I use on NT4 instead
also appears to work without problems.

Have I missed something on the bench that will bite me when I upgrade
live systems?

TIA

P2B