camcorder->computer 1394 issue

[Dunderberg]

I plugged in my Panasonic PV-GS250 DV camcorder. An unpluggable device icon appears on the taskbar.
WinDV says "no DV device" and black screen. In Device Manager, the 1394 spot shows the PV-GS250
with an exclamation mark: The drivers are not correctly installed. I reinstall the drivers (MSDV.INF) but
I get the following error:
"An error occurred during the installation of the device drivers--- ACCESS IS DENIED"
I have done this as Administrator on Windows 2000sp4.....DFI CA64-TC/TN motherboard
The Panasonic is connected to a SIIG? PCI card which also has USB and LAN onboard. The USB and LAN
work well.

I am wondering if the correct 1394 drivers are on this computer. The only driver I had to choose from was the TI one; I recall M$ had a 1394 driver as well as VIA and others? I dimly recall having this issue with Windows 98 when I had to replace the TI drivers with the M$ ones. But I can't find any OHCI 1394 files to download to try!

Any ideas? I just videotaped the Space Shuttle doing a 180 around my place and want to edit it on the computer!

Thanks, Jeff

[aedipuss]

the 1394 driver should be provided by the add-in card manufacturer.

msdv.inff is not a 1394 driver.

[TreeTops]

The MS 1394 driver worked for me in Vista until I updated to Win 7. Both drivers were available but Win 7 installed the non-legacy driver by default which didn't work for my Pany. When I installed the legacy driver all was good again.

[Dunderberg]

The camcorder connects fine with the Windows 2000 computer in my shop. I replaced all of the 'msdv' 'ohci' and '1394' system files in this malfunctioning house computer with those from the shop computer, with no luck. The house computer will search for a good driver for connecting the camcorder and finds "MSDV.INF" It then starts to "copy files" or whatever, then I get the "An error has occurred..........Access is denied"

Why is "access denied" without description? I do have Admin rights.

Also, I looked at the CD for the 3-way PCI card. There are drivers and such for the USB 2.0 and the LAN, but nothing for the 1394/firewire part.
I am wondering if the Firewire port of the PCI card is fried-- but wouldn't that show up in Device Manager?
What is baffling me is that the computer correctly ID's the camcorder as a PV-GS250. There's just one glitch somewheres, and I am baffled.

Any more ideas??

Cheers, Jeff

[aedipuss]

you can try removing the card booting without it, then re-install the card in a different slot and let windows re-install the drivers. might be an irq conflict.

[Dunderberg]

I changed the card from PCI slot 4, to 6. It did resolve a game input function! But the computer still won't accept the driver setup. I tried several things mentioned on the web to allow complete admin rights, even in the registry,
but still no luck. It may be that Windows has a slight corruption somewhere. But it odd that it rejects accepting a firewire device, but that same card/ Windows welcomes every USB device presented to it!

Cheers, Jeff

[aedipuss]

from what i read the firewire part of that card doesn't need anything but the standard firewire driver included in w2000. the network and usb portions have other drivers. so w2000 should "see" the card when installed and automatically install the correct driver if the card isn't defective.