PCI Firewire card not recognised, no drivers to choose from!

[Guest]

Hi, need help, can't figure out what is wrong. My Motherboard has built in
firewire which did not appear in device manager and could not force XP to see
it by manually selecting new hardware.
Does not appear as NIC either as sometimes happens.
I purchased a firewire PCI card and this does not appear automatically
either, it is not detected automatically, when i go to force it through Add
New Hardware and i choose 1394.inf there are no manufacturers in the list to
choose from, therefore cannot install!!
The card works fine in my win2K computer, so is not a card problem, not a
PCI slot problem as I tried a RAID card in that slot and is detected.
I have SP2, only loaded it to see if it would fix this problem, along with
all latest updates.
I don't want to do a complete reinstall of XP as there is a bunch of work
and programs that would take weeks to reinstall.
Regards,
An Angry Beaver

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

IEEE 1394 Network Adapter and IEEE 1394 Connection May
Not Be Visible on Your Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317812

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| Hi, need help, can't figure out what is wrong. My Motherboard has built in
| firewire which did not appear in device manager and could not force XP to see
| it by manually selecting new hardware.
| Does not appear as NIC either as sometimes happens.
| I purchased a firewire PCI card and this does not appear automatically
| either, it is not detected automatically, when i go to force it through Add
| New Hardware and i choose 1394.inf there are no manufacturers in the list to
| choose from, therefore cannot install!!
| The card works fine in my win2K computer, so is not a card problem, not a
| PCI slot problem as I tried a RAID card in that slot and is detected.
| I have SP2, only loaded it to see if it would fix this problem, along with
| all latest updates.
| I don't want to do a complete reinstall of XP as there is a bunch of work
| and programs that would take weeks to reinstall.
| Regards,
| An Angry Beaver

 

[danny3xd]

does the manufactures web site have the drivers?

 

[Borg hater]

A NIC uses similar hardware resources as Firewire, that's why the similarity
and sometimes mistaken identity. RAID/SCSI/pseudo scsi use different
resources at the hardware level. The slot you're using may not be able to
provide the proper hardware irq number.

Pull the Firewire card, and enable your onboard Firewire. Disable both
serial com ports if you're not using them, or just one. This may work on a
latter day PNP PC.

I had to disable, at the bios level, the onboard USB for a Firewire card to
work on one PC I had. Yes, I know that's not an option for most, but was my
only option on this particular PC.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice,
Manufacturers drivers not available as all say use the built in MS drivers.
I will try the hotfix first and then try disabling serial ports/ free up
resources.
Problem with built-in Firewire is that it is "always ON" cannot select in
BIOS. I have contacted the manufacturer but so far no word beyond questioning
why i want to disable onboard if i want to use firewire (fault finding is not
their support desks strong point, sigh).
I will post my results.

 

[Guest]

I got hold of the hotfix but alas it is only for pre-SP1 installs, I
extracted the file to the windows directory anyway but still no joy.
Removed firewire card, disabled com ports and then USB, no joy.
I then uninstalled SP2 with the card removed, and will reinstall SP2 and
then card.
If this fails I will attempt to 'Repair Installation' with the WXP CD.
Will post again once finished.

 

[Borg hater]

If accomplished in the bios, with what you've done, XP should have detected
at least new hardware, even if the driver was not available for one reason
or another. Disabling in XP won't free the hardware resources.
If you can't turn the onboard firewire off in the bios, its doubtful you can
get the addon PCI firewire card to be seen.