PCI firewire card

[Guest]

I have an Ultra 31342 PCI firewire card that i am trying to install. I can
not get the drivers loaded. The error i get is can not install drivers error
code 28. I tried it on a different pc and works fine. I have tried
uninstalling and reinstalling. I tried uninstalling RAID from my hard drive.
I downloaded hotfix (winxp-kb-885222-v2-x86-enu) and no help. My system is
winxp with sp2 amd 3700 athlon, MB is machspeed k8m8ms, for programs i have
office 2000, norton system works 2005, Nero suite 3, quicken 2006 and adobe
reader. Their are a few others but those are the main ones. Ca any one please
help. I am totally frustrated at this point Thank you very much.

 

[Jonny]

You shouldn't need any drivers, XP has drivers for firewire built-in to the
system.
The 3rd party applications have nothing to do with your problem.
Moving the card to a different slot, or disabling in the PC's bios something
you may not be using like onboard NIC or serial com port may free up a irq
that will work with firewire.

.............
Jonny

 

[Guest]

The irq is 12 and it is by itself. It shows the 1394 host controller in
system info and shows it in device manager with yellow exclamtion point.
windows just can not install the drivers. keep getting error code 28
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Thank you,
Phil

You shouldn't need any drivers, XP has drivers for firewire built-in to the
system.
The 3rd party applications have nothing to do with your problem.
Moving the card to a different slot, or disabling in the PC's bios something
you may not be using like onboard NIC or serial com port may free up a irq
that will work with firewire.

.............
Jonny

 

[Treeman]

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To install the drivers for this device, click Update Driver. This
starts the Hardware Update Wizard.

Although the drivers in SP2 for firewire don't like certain firewire
controller chips, the SP1 drivers for firewire work without a problem.

You can roll back to SP1 drivers by doing the following, or try a
different card.
Best,
Treeman

Go to C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386 & C:\dllcache in SP1 and copy out
the
following files
1394bus.sys is in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers
arp1394.sys is in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers
nic1394.sys is in c:\Windows\System32\Drivers
ohci1394.sys is in C:\windows\System32\drivers
enum1394.sys is in C:\windows\system32\drivers
Copy out the following files to a new folder you can call
"Firewirefix," (without quotes)

Stop XP Sp2 from re-installing it's drivers again by:
Renaming the SP2.cab file to (e.g. to SP2old.cab)

Replace the SP2 versions of these files with the SP1 versions in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers & C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache in safe
mode.

Go to device manager for your ohci firewire card and update SP2 drivers
to the SP1 drivers by pointing to Firewirefix.(warning message normal)
Reboot.

 

[Guest]

How do i roll back the drivers to sp1? Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Actually i found how to roll back But it says their are no drivers to roll
back.

 

[Guest]

I have sp1 on onother computer i can try using disk in cd-rom drive as a
search for driver.

 

[Treeman]

Actually i found how to roll back But it says their are no drivers to
roll
back.

This is due to the fact that you don't have the drivers off an XP SP1
disk.
You probably have an XP disk with SP2 included.
You will have to borrow the same version (home/Pro) SP-1 disk from a
friend, and download the drivers from there.
Good luck,
Treeman

 

[Guest]

Tried loading from other win xp sp1 disk and that still did not work. I used
msconfig and turned off just about everything running. I unplugged all usb
hardware and cd drives and also tried that. Still no luck.

 

[Treeman]

Tried loading from other win xp sp1 disk and that still did not work. I
used msconfig and turned off just about everything running. I unplugged
all usb hardware and cd drives and also tried that. Still no luck.

You don't have to do all the above, you do however have to rename
SP2.cab to SP2old.cab to load the new/old drivers.
If you don't do this, SP2 will just reload it's own drivers again, and
your back to square one.
Did you _copy_ the SP1 firewire files to a folder, or did you try it
straight from the CD?
If you still can't get the firewire card to work, trash it try this:
'Firewire Direct' (http://www.firewiredirect.com/product/115/)
Best,
Treeman