wrong driver for firewire card / OHCI COMPLIANT IEEE 1394 host controller

[Guest]

XP professional seems to think i have the wrong driver installed for a new firewire card. The manufacturer's literature says I should need no drivers since the card "Is compliant to IEEE 1394 OpenHCI specifications and compatible with microsoft OHCI, DV, and SB-2 driver in Windows XP". the Manufacturer says to follow OS instructions for installing the driver. Problem is I cannot for the life of me find MS instructions for installing or re- installing the OHCI, DV, and SB-2 driver. I have installed direct x9 in a vain attempt to address this.

My ultimate goal is to be able to use the new card for video capture but I am having no luck even getting windows to see my video camera.

 

[Don MI]

XP professional seems to think i have the wrong driver installed for a new

firewire card. The manufacturer's literature says I should need no drivers
since the card "Is compliant to IEEE 1394 OpenHCI specifications and
compatible with microsoft OHCI, DV, and SB-2 driver in Windows XP". the
Manufacturer says to follow OS instructions for installing the driver.
Problem is I cannot for the life of me find MS instructions for installing
or re- installing the OHCI, DV, and SB-2 driver. I have installed direct x9
in a vain attempt to address this.

My ultimate goal is to be able to use the new card for video capture but I

am having no luck even getting windows to see my video camera.

Does your new card have both USB and firewire ports? If so, are you sure
you are using the firewire port.

Right Click on My Computer and select Properties and then the Hardware tab.
Click on Device Manager. Find your firewire card on the list. Right click
on it and select Properties. Do the properties indicate that the device is
working normally. If so, you have drivers installed. If not, go to the
Driver tab and try to update driver or use the Trouble shooting option on
the General tab.

For Windows to see your camera {assuming that the firewire card is working},
I think that you must have software installed. Did you receive Windows XP
compatible software with your video camera? My computer came with Giga
Pocket for working with such devices.

Don