PC detects Canopus DVStorm RT as multimedia controller but no driver found?

[AVCHDfreak]

Hi all,
I have a Canopus DVStorm RT that was previously working from a friend's old XP machine. I have a dual boot Win7(x64)/XP(x86) machine which detects the device as a multimedia controller (in both OSes) but cannot find drivers for it. I know that x64 drivers are not available for the device. The device's HardwareID (from both OSes) is "PCI/VEN_1131&DEV_7146&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_01" which doesn't seem right to me.

Has anyone have experience with this card and can give insight on compatible systems with this card? As for starters my PC is from 2011.
Thanks in advance.

[roma_turok]

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5) Click on View Registered Products and download drivers

Drivers supported for XP 32bit

[usually_quiet]

Hi all,
I have a Canopus DVStorm RT that was previously working from a friend's old XP machine. I have a dual boot Win7(x64)/XP(x86) machine which detects the device as a multimedia controller (in both OSes) but cannot find drivers for it. I know that x64 drivers are not available for the device. The device's HardwareID (from both OSes) is "PCI/VEN_1131&DEV_7146&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_01" which doesn't seem right to me.

Has anyone have experience with this card and can give insight on compatible systems with this card? As for starters my PC is from 2011.
Thanks in advance.

Contact Grass Valley Support and see if they can help you find XP drivers. http://www.grassvalley.com/support/contact

[AVCHDfreak]

1) Go to http://www.grassvalley.com
2) Sign Up and Login
3) Click on Register a Product and fill info, serial number and other info not supposed to be right
you can type anything:

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4) click on Save
5) Click on View Registered Products and download drivers

Drivers supported for XP 32bit

Hi roma_turok,
I have done so but could only find the "Canopus DV Driver" (CanopusDVDriver07.zip) which I have already tried multiple times with no luck, whenever I try to uninstall the driver it says that it can't find a compatible device (because the HardwareID doesn't match). Every time this or an earlier driver is installed, the card remains as a "Multimedia Controller" in unknown devices in Device Manager.

[roma_turok]

Try insert card to other PCI slot and install driver again

[Cornucopia]

I still have that card and at one time had the original install discs. Will check my library to see if I still do...

Scott

<edit>NOPE!
If I still have them, they'll have been in (literal) cold storage out of the country... Sorry.

[AVCHDfreak]

My PC has 2 PCI slots, both are functional because they detect another working PCI card (Xonar DG sound card). I have tried both slots with no luck, they returned the same HardwareId. I'm thinking that the card might be shot or it's a hardware compatibility issue (the card seems to have attained its own IRQ (12) though).

Just out of curiosity, would changing the HardwareId in the driver's INF file to match the device's reported HardwareId help? I would not think of it being that simple though...

[AVCHDfreak]

I still have that card and at one time had the original install discs. Will check my library to see if I still do...

Scott

<edit>NOPE!
If I still have them, they'll have been in (literal) cold storage out of the country... Sorry.

That's alright, I'll need to find another computer to test the card anyway. My friend didn't expect that something costing him thousands of dollars would be unused after just under a year, the card has been stored in its original packaging for a long time.

[Krispy Kritter]

Grass Valley also have their own forums: http://forum.grassvalley.com/forum/index.php

[AVCHDfreak]

Grass Valley also have their own forums: http://forum.grassvalley.com/forum/index.php

Hi Krispy Kritter,
Thanks, I have opened a thread there, but it seems the card is too old for anyone's interest these days.

[Krispy Kritter]

Personally I'd use it as a reason to upgrade to a current gen card. Not as much of an issue for you as you dual boot, but driver issues aside, I wouldn't be surprised if there were other software related issues as well once it was installed.

[AVCHDfreak]

Personally I'd use it as a reason to upgrade to a current gen card. Not as much of an issue for you as you dual boot, but driver issues aside, I wouldn't be surprised if there were other software related issues as well once it was installed.

Don't think I could find a current-gen card that captures analog and converts to DV, cards these days capture to MPEG1/2/4 and they take more processing to decode during editing. The main reason for the DVStorm not working was because my motherboard was missing some PCI settings like latency adjustment.

[usually_quiet]

Personally I'd use it as a reason to upgrade to a current gen card. Not as much of an issue for you as you dual boot, but driver issues aside, I wouldn't be surprised if there were other software related issues as well once it was installed.

Don't think I could find a current-gen card that captures analog and converts to DV, cards these days capture to MPEG1/2/4 and they take more processing to decode during editing. The main reason for the DVStorm not working was because my motherboard was missing some PCI settings like latency adjustment.

If you can't get your current device to work there is another option, the Canopus ADVC110, which is still being made, captures analog and converts to DV. It has a FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface, so you would need to install a PCI or PCI-e FireWire card if the PC does not have an existing FireWire port.

[AVCHDfreak]

If you can't get your current device to work there is another option, the Canopus ADVC110, which is still being made, captures analog and converts to DV. It has a FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface, so you would need to install a PCI or PCI-e FireWire card if the PC does not have an existing FireWire port.

Thanks, I have been thinking about the Canopus ADVC series of devices, though the rarity of such devices in my area drives prices up to prohibitive levels as well as buying overseas where shipping costs five times or more than the price of the item. I have a Matrox RTX card and a few other capture cards coming in, will see if I manage to get them functional.