Firewire Card Recommendations

[avtech]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good fire-wire card to be used with a Canopus ADVC-100?

I currently have a Dell machine, and a Texas Instruments firewire card, and as a result the Canopus ADVC-100 is not working with it.

The Dell machine has been rebuilt a number of times, and the ADVC100 does work.

I have read about the incompatibility between TI cards and Canopus ADVC100's.... if this is correct, can anyone recommend a good replacement?

Thank you

[D_Knife]

Aim for a VIA based chipset - works fine
most of them are really cheap as well

[Mythos2002]

I bought a Koutech Firewire card from NewEgg and didn't have any problems with my ADVC-100 working in Windows XP. This card has a Ti chipset. Canopus has said that the Ti chioset problem should be a nonissue now because newer Ti chipset cards do not have the problem anymore.

Hope this helps.

Mythos

[avtech]

I forgot to mention that I'm on Windows 2000... does that make a difference to any card recomendations?

With regards to last post.... does that mean that any new TI cards will work with the Canopus ADVC100?

Thanks for your help

[Mythos2002]

No Problem. A far as I know, any new Ti chipset cards should work. Windows 2000 should also be fine. You can double check by going to the forum on Canopus' website at http://forum.canopus.com/


My card had really good reviews on NewEgg. It comes with Ulead VideoStudio 7 (I don't use it though) and a firewire cable. It also has a 5 year warranty. The stickers on the box say designed for Windows 98 through 2000 Pro. I'm having no problems with XP either.

My card is actually called the IOFLEX-FW4 and is manufactured by Kouwell. The website for support is listed as Koutech and NewEgg listed it under Koutech as well. The model number is: KW-582V2

One other note is that my motherboard has a VIA chipset which is supposed to be notorious for incompatibilities. I haven't had any problems so far.

I hope this helps. I really like the my card, but I know there are probably ones out there that are better. Mine is straight firewire with no USB connectors. I know some people like the combo cards like that, but my motherboard already has both USB 1.0 and 2.0 connectors.

Good luck.


Mythos