New Computer - Firewire wont work

[Thehebrewhammer]

Hi

I just bought a new Windows XP based computer and it will not read any firewire devices. I downloaded SP2 in hopes of finding a driver that would fix this but I was out of luck. Any suggestions?

I'm running an AMD Athalon 64 3000+ with a gig of ram, and a K8V motherboard. My firewire ports are from both PCI and my case.

Thanks for any help you can give me

[budz]

go to your motherboard manufacturer to download the drivers.

[Supreme2k]

Try disabling one or the other. if possible, make sure that PCI slot 1 is empty, because often the built in devices have a conflict when that slot is taken (crappy design, I know).

[Thehebrewhammer]

Asus does not offer any drivers for IEEE 1394 for my motherboard. As for the second option I'll give it a try

[vitualis]

If you go to the device manager, do you see a question mark somewhere? If so, a driver for the firewire controller hasn't been installed.

After installing SP2, go to the device manager and use "update driver" (or something like that).

I found that I had to do the same for my A64 mobo to get the USB2 driver installed.

Regards.

[budz]

what is the brand of firewire pci card? a friend used some crappy fmi brand that was a compusa's brand and it wouldn't work. i suggested he use a APAPTEC one and it worked great.

[Thehebrewhammer]

I actually did the pci slot swapping thing, its working perfectly now.

Thanks for all the help everyone

[xxgriff]

Glad you found a solution.

you may want to check out this article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040823/index.html

You can get drivers for your chipset from Via

http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/4in1/via_hyperion%204%20in%201_v453v.zip

it is likely your PCI firewire uses one of the two chips mentioned in the first article. there are links there.