Rebooting when firewire device connected

[justinmanuel]

Specs:
ECS Pt800ce-a motherboard w/ VIA chipset
1024 + 256 MB DDR400 RAM
60GB hard drive
P4 3.0 GHz processor
Adaptec Firewire Card

Firewire Device:
Presonus Firepod 24bit/96khz recording interface

Problem: Computer works PERFECTLY with all cards installed. The
firepod has a red led that turns blue if its synced up properly.
Now, I plug the firepod into the firewire card and the red light
turns blue. Its only a matter of minutes before the light turns red
again and the computer either freezes or restarts itself. I've
replaced the firewire card twice, ran a memtest, ran a hard drive
test, installed motherboard monitor, installed service pack 2, and
tried a million other things. Running out of ideas. Any
suggestions?

 

[JAD]

usually this points to a driver issue....or a oddly pinned firewire (e.g. My
creative firewire port won't work with some firewire hardware.) Try plugging
into another machine just to see it work properly. What OS? Media edition?
not gonna work well.

"We have seen many issues unique to systems running Windows XP Media
Edition, and strongly recommend using Windows XP Home or Professional
instead."