Winxp no longer recognizing Firewire or firewire on cardbus on my laptop!? Pls help.

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I don't know how this happened, because it worked about 1 month ago
and nothing has been added or changed on my system.

When I try to capture anything with Vegas (non-linear editor) using
either a cardbus firewire or the built in 4pin firewire, it does not
recognize it (HP laptop NX4700). Now, the even strange part is that
it did recognize it, so about 5 seconds and now it does not. So
something is corrupted, but I am unsure how to fix it.
Any ideas?

In control panel, device manager - I have tried to remove the firewire
and let it reinstall, but still no luck.

Laptop
NX7400 HP

Thanks
 
This is getting stranger. My old Samsung MiniDV is recognized by the
laptop, but not the new Panasonic and the Sony. I think there must
have been something corrupted when it took on the Samsung driver and
that is blocking the other drivers from working. Going to have to do
a search to see if there are minidv drivers for XP.
 
David said:
This is getting stranger. My old Samsung MiniDV is recognized by the
laptop, but not the new Panasonic and the Sony. I think there must
have been something corrupted when it took on the Samsung driver and
that is blocking the other drivers from working. Going to have to do
a search to see if there are minidv drivers for XP.
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This is probably not truly a Windows problem but a hardware one. First,
Firewire tends to be a little sensitive to voltage overloads and the
circuitry is known to get burned out. Second, the computer's chipset is
what controls Firewire and if any driver files are corrupted, it would
have to be reloaded from the motherboard's driver cdrom. Hoping for the
second, reload the drivers from the laptop's cdrom.
 
I noticed way too late a bent pin. I think I have shorted out three
camera in a space of 3 hours. Oh my goodness. I don't know what to
do at this point. Both the Panasonic and the Sony will not work with
two different computers, but the samsung will. Thank goodness the
Samsung is ok, it is a friends. But the Sony and the Panasonic will
not get recognized by the computer - both laptop and desktop. I don't
know what to do...
 
David said:
I noticed way too late a bent pin. I think I have shorted out three
camera in a space of 3 hours. Oh my goodness. I don't know what to
do at this point. Both the Panasonic and the Sony will not work with
two different computers, but the samsung will. Thank goodness the
Samsung is ok, it is a friends. But the Sony and the Panasonic will
not get recognized by the computer - both laptop and desktop. I don't
know what to do...
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Is Firewire the only way to connect these cameras to the computer?
That is, is there an USB option? If so, then check out whether or not
the USB connection works. It might be the only way to use these cameras.
 
GHalleck said:
Is Firewire the only way to connect these cameras to the computer?
That is, is there an USB option? If so, then check out whether or not
the USB connection works. It might be the only way to use these cameras.
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If the cameras are tape based machines then the video cannot be streamed
over the USB. USB cannot guarantee to maintain the necessary data transfer
(which, because of the tape must be continuous). If the cameras have USB
ports they will be for still pictures only.
 
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