FIREWIRE card

[Guest]

I have a new computer. it came with windows XP home. I have a firewire
card. I bought it to put INTO the computer that came with windows XP home.
The firewire card came with no drivers, and no manufacturing information,
saying only that I can get the drivers from windows XP. I couldn't get it to
work. I screamed and cursed and threw a fit... and realized the disk that
was sent to me with my computer had no drivers on it. I bought another
firewire card and it, too, had no drivers. Get them from windows XP. I
spent $100 and bought another freakin' copy of windows XP. IT STILL WON'T
FIND THE DRIVERS FOR MY FIREWIRE CARD! Nor will it find the drivers for the
onboard "multimedia audio controller" that was on the computer when I GOT it.
I'm very confused. And very frustrated. Does anyone have any clue where on
EARTH I can get drivers for this card? I even bought a modem and hooked this
computer up to the internet (which I did NOT want to do) so that it could
search windows updates for them. Nothing. SURELY there is a way to install
this card which says "compatible with windows 98, ME, XP, etc" on it.

 

[Roberto]

XP will install the required firewire drives IF it detects the new card,
so you don't have to source drivers yourself.
Now the question is, did windows see the new device when it started after
fitting the card?.
If not, try moving the firewire card to another PCI slot, best to leave
slot 1 unused, [that's the one nearest the AGP/PCIE graphics slot]

rgds
Roberto

 

[Guest]

It detects the card, but thinks it's an ethernet card. It's done the same
thing for two different firewire cards, one of which I bought brand new in
case there was something wrong with the first one I tried to use.

XP will install the required firewire drives IF it detects the new card,
so you don't have to source drivers yourself.
Now the question is, did windows see the new device when it started after
fitting the card?.
If not, try moving the firewire card to another PCI slot, best to leave
slot 1 unused, [that's the one nearest the AGP/PCIE graphics slot]

rgds
Roberto

I have a new computer. it came with windows XP home. I have a firewire
card. I bought it to put INTO the computer that came with windows XP
home.
The firewire card came with no drivers, and no manufacturing information,
saying only that I can get the drivers from windows XP. I couldn't get it
to
work. I screamed and cursed and threw a fit... and realized the disk that
was sent to me with my computer had no drivers on it. I bought another
firewire card and it, too, had no drivers. Get them from windows XP. I
spent $100 and bought another freakin' copy of windows XP. IT STILL WON'T
FIND THE DRIVERS FOR MY FIREWIRE CARD! Nor will it find the drivers for
the
onboard "multimedia audio controller" that was on the computer when I GOT
it.
I'm very confused. And very frustrated. Does anyone have any clue where
on
EARTH I can get drivers for this card? I even bought a modem and hooked
this
computer up to the internet (which I did NOT want to do) so that it could
search windows updates for them. Nothing. SURELY there is a way to
install
this card which says "compatible with windows 98, ME, XP, etc" on it.

 

[Roberto]

Then I think you could have issues at BIOS level, check into the
emachines web site and see if you can get an update for your BIOS, read
the instructions carefully before proceeding.
Doing it wrong and you could render your system unbootable.

rgds
Roberto

It detects the card, but thinks it's an ethernet card. It's done the same
thing for two different firewire cards, one of which I bought brand new in
case there was something wrong with the first one I tried to use.

XP will install the required firewire drives IF it detects the new card,
so you don't have to source drivers yourself.
Now the question is, did windows see the new device when it started
after
fitting the card?.
If not, try moving the firewire card to another PCI slot, best to
leave
slot 1 unused, [that's the one nearest the AGP/PCIE graphics slot]

rgds
Roberto

I have a new computer. it came with windows XP home. I have a firewire
card. I bought it to put INTO the computer that came with windows XP
home.
The firewire card came with no drivers, and no manufacturing
information,
saying only that I can get the drivers from windows XP. I couldn't get
it
to
work. I screamed and cursed and threw a fit... and realized the disk
that
was sent to me with my computer had no drivers on it. I bought another
firewire card and it, too, had no drivers. Get them from windows XP.
I
spent $100 and bought another freakin' copy of windows XP. IT STILL
WON'T
FIND THE DRIVERS FOR MY FIREWIRE CARD! Nor will it find the drivers
for
the
onboard "multimedia audio controller" that was on the computer when I
GOT
it.
I'm very confused. And very frustrated. Does anyone have any clue
where
on
EARTH I can get drivers for this card? I even bought a modem and
hooked
this
computer up to the internet (which I did NOT want to do) so that it
could
search windows updates for them. Nothing. SURELY there is a way to
install
this card which says "compatible with windows 98, ME, XP, etc" on it.

 

[Mark Weinreb]

In device manager under Network adapters does the firewire card show as
"1394 Net Adapter"? If so, there is nothing wrong as that's how it is
supposed to be.
There should also be a separate, top-level, entry of "IEEE 1394 Bus Host
Controller" (or similar). If you have these entries, your firewire card is
installed correctly.

It detects the card, but thinks it's an ethernet card. It's done the same
thing for two different firewire cards, one of which I bought brand new in
case there was something wrong with the first one I tried to use.

XP will install the required firewire drives IF it detects the new card,
so you don't have to source drivers yourself.
Now the question is, did windows see the new device when it started
after
fitting the card?.
If not, try moving the firewire card to another PCI slot, best to
leave
slot 1 unused, [that's the one nearest the AGP/PCIE graphics slot]

rgds
Roberto

I have a new computer. it came with windows XP home. I have a firewire
card. I bought it to put INTO the computer that came with windows XP
home.
The firewire card came with no drivers, and no manufacturing
information,
saying only that I can get the drivers from windows XP. I couldn't get
it
to
work. I screamed and cursed and threw a fit... and realized the disk
that
was sent to me with my computer had no drivers on it. I bought another
firewire card and it, too, had no drivers. Get them from windows XP.
I
spent $100 and bought another freakin' copy of windows XP. IT STILL
WON'T
FIND THE DRIVERS FOR MY FIREWIRE CARD! Nor will it find the drivers
for
the
onboard "multimedia audio controller" that was on the computer when I
GOT
it.
I'm very confused. And very frustrated. Does anyone have any clue
where
on
EARTH I can get drivers for this card? I even bought a modem and
hooked
this
computer up to the internet (which I did NOT want to do) so that it
could
search windows updates for them. Nothing. SURELY there is a way to
install
this card which says "compatible with windows 98, ME, XP, etc" on it.

 

[Guest]

"IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controller" is there. "1394 Net Adapter" is not.
Instead I have "Ethernet controller" in "Other devices".

In device manager under Network adapters does the firewire card show as
"1394 Net Adapter"? If so, there is nothing wrong as that's how it is
supposed to be.
There should also be a separate, top-level, entry of "IEEE 1394 Bus Host
Controller" (or similar). If you have these entries, your firewire card is
installed correctly.

It detects the card, but thinks it's an ethernet card. It's done the same
thing for two different firewire cards, one of which I bought brand new in
case there was something wrong with the first one I tried to use.

XP will install the required firewire drives IF it detects the new card,
so you don't have to source drivers yourself.
Now the question is, did windows see the new device when it started
after
fitting the card?.
If not, try moving the firewire card to another PCI slot, best to
leave
slot 1 unused, [that's the one nearest the AGP/PCIE graphics slot]

rgds
Roberto

I have a new computer. it came with windows XP home. I have a firewire
card. I bought it to put INTO the computer that came with windows XP
home.
The firewire card came with no drivers, and no manufacturing
information,
saying only that I can get the drivers from windows XP. I couldn't get
it
to
work. I screamed and cursed and threw a fit... and realized the disk
that
was sent to me with my computer had no drivers on it. I bought another
firewire card and it, too, had no drivers. Get them from windows XP.
I
spent $100 and bought another freakin' copy of windows XP. IT STILL
WON'T
FIND THE DRIVERS FOR MY FIREWIRE CARD! Nor will it find the drivers
for
the
onboard "multimedia audio controller" that was on the computer when I
GOT
it.
I'm very confused. And very frustrated. Does anyone have any clue
where
on
EARTH I can get drivers for this card? I even bought a modem and
hooked
this
computer up to the internet (which I did NOT want to do) so that it
could
search windows updates for them. Nothing. SURELY there is a way to
install
this card which says "compatible with windows 98, ME, XP, etc" on it.