ieee1394 stopped working

[pan_mi]

I have been using my DELL inspiron 8200 for 10 months now
for capturing video from my sony PC100 DV camera, suddenly
a week ago the computer refuses to recognise the camera
anymore.

I tried the camera with the same cable in another
computer and it still works.

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling the 1394 drivers,

I also installed microsoft's patch for the "FIX:
Inconsistent Gap Count Can Cause 1394 Devices to Not
Enumerate"

in the device manager the 1394 card is shown to work
properly, as well as the coresponding network connection

i have winXP home edition (SP2)

Does anyone know what might be a solution to this problem?
(reinstalling windows from scratch wouldn't be an option
right know, i need my computer as it is to work)

I don't think i installed or uninstalled any software
messing with the 1394 controller at the time it stopped
working. Before this happened everytime i plugged the
camera a pop up window would come up telling me that a
capture device is plugged, and i could see the camera in
device manager. Now the camera doesn't appear in the
device manager anymore and consequently it cannot be
accesed by any other piece of software.

 

[PaulM]

Did this start happening after you installed the patch? If so unstall the
patch and see it that will fixed the problem, can you go back to a restore
point to before it happened?

 

[Quaoar]

I have been using my DELL inspiron 8200 for 10 months now
for capturing video from my sony PC100 DV camera, suddenly
a week ago the computer refuses to recognise the camera
anymore.

I tried the camera with the same cable in another
computer and it still works.

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling the 1394 drivers,

I also installed microsoft's patch for the "FIX:
Inconsistent Gap Count Can Cause 1394 Devices to Not
Enumerate"

in the device manager the 1394 card is shown to work
properly, as well as the coresponding network connection

i have winXP home edition (SP2)

Does anyone know what might be a solution to this problem?
(reinstalling windows from scratch wouldn't be an option
right know, i need my computer as it is to work)

I don't think i installed or uninstalled any software
messing with the 1394 controller at the time it stopped
working. Before this happened everytime i plugged the
camera a pop up window would come up telling me that a
capture device is plugged, and i could see the camera in
device manager. Now the camera doesn't appear in the
device manager anymore and consequently it cannot be
accesed by any other piece of software.

When you connect it, what do you normally see that is XP recognizing it?
Is is a disk drive? Does software auto-open? Can you see it in My
Computer at all now? If it does show up as a drive, it might be the
autoplay settings have changed... Right click the drive, select
properties, and the Autoplay tab.

Q

 

[CN]

I have exactly the same problem - see topic "1394 and network XP config".

I've uninstalled everything & manually cleared registry references. It
all seem to reinstall ok (invisibly though, which doesn't seem right).
Device Mgr also shows every installed & working but no software can
acess the camera. Also running WinXP Home, Firewire card has VIA OHCI
Compliant chipset.

Pan - where can I find the patch you installed?

CN

 

[pan_mi]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=9e8df3f3-cd0c-4edb-936a-
5f0043e88bb2&DisplayLang=en

there you will find the fix of the 1394 enumeration
problem, hope it works for you.

 

[Quaoar]

No it is not a 1394 drive it is just a DVcamera, that
used to work before and not anymore, when i plug it in i
don't see any activity going on, not even the hard drive
blinking as if it would try to find and load the Microsoft
DV camera driver as it used to do before. No pop ups, not
anything appearing in the device manager, no activity
nothing. I have read a lot about people having similar
problems with 1394 controllers under windows but there
seems to be no solution at the moment. I ran the DELL
dianostics and they report that the controller is working
perfectly and the same in the device manager, it just
doesn't react when devices are plugged on it.
I tend to think that it does have something to do with the
enumeration of the firewire devices and the way this
leaves some keys in the registry even after you unplug the
device,

When it is connected, do you see it in the control panel Scanners and
Cameras? Click My Computer and see if there is any entry as an E: or F:
drive. Anything at all relating to the camera? These are important to
check to make sure that it is not a simple change in the Autoplay
settings for the camera.

Q