Firewire / SP2

[Nick Marques]

I have a bunch of devices which I use with Firewire. There's an Apple iPod
4th Gen, an external hard drive, and an external CD-RW. They have all worked
before.

I just did a clean install of Windows XP SP2, and they even worked after
that... Suddenly, they stopped. I installed the fix Microsoft has available
but that diddn't help. I can't figure out what is causing this. The problem
exists on two different computers.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Are you sure?

All the iPods that I have seen use a USB cable to connect to PCs. Same with
external devices such as mouse, keyboard, cameras, floppy drives, hard drives
etc.

 

[Tookeey]

I've experienced the same problem. With XP SP2 the firewire just
suddenly stopped working. Windows recognizes my camcorder when using
the USB interface, but it doesn't do plug-and-play anymore with my
camcorder when using firewire. I even bought a new firewire cable and
card, but it hasn't started working yet. Did you ever come up with a
solution?

 

[rfq]

I had similar problems (it ended up being a faulty firewire cable), but
I found quite a useful thread dealing with replacing the SP2 firewire
drivers with SP1 versions that seems to help many people with similar
problems. Check out the thread <A
HREF="http://forum.digital-digest.com/archive/topic/42557-1.html">here</A>.
RQ