windows XP wont recognize the DV camera

[Mujib Abbasi]

Hi, I have a Sony digital 8 video camera. The windows XP
pro operating system wont recognize the camera and wont
install it. The 1394 card is correctly installed and has
no problems. I am desperate, can anyone help.
Thanks.
Mujib Abbasi

 

[Guest]

turn your camera to vcr

 

[Guest]

This looks like a consistenjt problem across the entire chain of vendors--in my case, it is Sony, Microsoft, Asus. I went out on a limb yesterday and flashed a beta BIOS uodate to my dual boot XP/2000 system (built on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard with built-in Nvidia 1394a ethernet and 1394a 4- and 6-pin ports). Oh how I was praying for my Sony DCR-TRV510 Digital8 cam to come online--I've spent 60 hours doing all the monkey science suggested by the Sony and Asus and uSoft tech reps and the private parties who post in the newsgroups.

I'll bet I'm not the only one around here who has downloaded half a dozen microsft SDKs and software updates,read Knowledgebases that know knothing, and rooted aound for tools and diagnostics to help me get my DV cam working on yesterday's fast PC platform

I spent the wee hours of last night comparing ethernet MAC and 1394 GUIDs against numbers on stickers on the back of the motherboard. Some people are just plain hungry, I guess.

Today I spent my last ounce of resolve trying to install the Win 98 SE (upgrade edition) on an old system, (drumroll please) with a USB floppy drive, because my cam and 1394 card worked fine on that system years ago. I have had it with all this clowning around! A local columnist wrote that he simply plugged in his cam and it worked. Brown-nosing prevaricator is what he is, that's what I think.

I'm going to laugh out loud at the next person who tells me the B-I-G F-R-E-E XP update is probably going to fix it. There's no sign the uSoft is even aware of the problem

'scuse me Soler, I'm not faunching at you, I'm venting because with all this flap about XP/DV dysfunctions, a straight answer would be most valuable. Has anyone gotten results re-installing? I'd really like to know, if that is the answer, what it is that I am missing or not doing along those lines.

--Skookum
"half past clowning around about this 1394 DV thing"

 

[Guest]

Hello Skookum,

Did you finally solve the problem? Is there a general solution to this
problem?

I have a Sony DCR-TRV16E digital camera and have the same problem. Correctly
working IEEE1394 interface, right cable, but camera unrecognized whatever I
try.

It seems that both Sony and Microsoft do not have a direct solution at the
moment. Am I correct in this or are there other tricks to play to get the
camera recognized and working with my PC?

Cheers,

DaVinci

 

[Guest]

Hi DaVinci--

Still not solved yet.

I worked with an MS problem solver for a while, but after we got as far as
reinstalling XP on a new disk from scratch, he sorta declared that it wasn't
an XP problem.

I then took the Sony cam down to my local computer store and they agreed to
plug it into a PC running XP--again, it did not get recognized, so they
immediately diagnosed it as a fried i.Link on the cam. They didn't really
have any diagnostic equipment, but suggested I try a video store. which I
did. The computer store says it is a video problem, the video store then
said it was more like a computer problem. Sony, Microsoft, and Asus all say
it isn't their problem. I don;t know but I think this is is FU'N.

Except for the fact that the 'net is full of people, from all over the
planet, who are having DV cam problems on PCs running XP, I would probably
agree that my camera must be the problem. But I'm so sick of getting the
running around that, at this point, I would probably at least agree that my
cam's i.Link is fried, and that since so many others are having the problem,
it must be because the PC/XP 1394 ports are frying the i.Links of some cams.

Anyway, sorry, DaVinci. In this case, no news just means its the same old
bad news.



I tried a Pinnacle DV solution that had a 1394 card and software for $79.00
US. The cam didn't work with it, so I took it back and got a refund.

 

[Guest]

Hi Skookum,

Solved the problem today. Did you check the 4-pin connector end of the
cables you used? You have to make sure that the 4 electrical pins are as
close as 1 mm to the edge of the shield. Many cables have their pins too far
inside the connector housing and therefore don't connect at all or inproperly
to the camera.

Please have a look at the message that I posted today.

Cheers,

DaVinci

 

[Guest]

I have ASUS P4C800 deluxe mama. The 1394 driver does not even show up in
device management.

Any Ideas how to get it ?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Did you remember to install the motherboard chipset utility drivers after
you installed Windows XP?

They can be found at the Asus website... along with a forum for discussion
on this particular board.
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

 

[Guest]

I have been back and forth on both ASUS and this forum. I reloaded the
lastest Intel Chip Set version INF UPdate Utility version 8..0.1.1002. Tried
to reinstall the ASUS version of the same thing but it went about 30 percent
then the computer ringed and it quite installing. I still can not see
anything relating to IE1394 or firewire in device manager.

Thanks.