Capturing from Sony HC30e, help please !!

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Hi all, can anybody please help me capture some video from my camera.
I have a Sony HC30e connected to my PC with firewire.

It's all connected but my PC does not recognise anything has been plugged in.

Previous to this I had no firewire ports on my PC so I bought a PCI card with 4 firewire ports on, it installed automaticaly using drivers from WindowsUpdate. It appears in device manager as working ok.


I can't get my PC to recognise a camera is connected, It's driving me crazy can somebody help before the camera goes out of the window, thanks.

[DB83]

For a start, I would install the drivers that come with the card and not rely on Windows own drivers.

Some extra info would help - make/model of your mainboard (if you know it) and, the make/model of the pci card.

And follow the installation instructions to the letter. Sometime, even with a pci card, the drivers must be loaded BEFORE the card in inserted in the slot.

If you have other available slots you should also try those.

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thanks for your reply, my main board is an ASRock K10N78FullHDhsli.
The only reason I used windows drivers is that no cd came with my pci card and it is unbranded, its this here.....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201023364880?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I could try a different pci slot, or it might be a dodgy cable but I've no other firewire devices to test it on. The cable just cost me £20 from Maplin.

[DB83]

So you spend a fiver on an un-branded card and £20 on a cable which you could probably have had for £2 on ebay ?

That really must be an old mb not to have a single firewire port. Also check that the card is firmly set in the board. If it is slightly untrue that may be enough not to communicate.

It may also be a chipset issue on the mb especially if that has via chips.

I suggest that you contact the seller of the card on how you obtain the proper drivers for it.

[DB83]

You had better read this as well

http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/content/cnt-hn/prd-dime/how-to-transfer-dv-or-digital...r-pc/DCR-HC30E