Anyone using a firewire PCIcard with WindowsXP???

[Cybordolphin]

If so.. what brand firewire card are you using.. and how did you get it to work? Did you have problems?

My new card gets me a big fat HARD lock. I can't seem to get around it.

Thanks to anyone who takes time to post.

 

[vailr]

SB Audigy sound card includes a firewire port. Haven't utilized it, but the XP driver for it installed without problem.
Yours is probably an IRQ conflict. Might try swapping to different PCI slots. Or disable unused parallel, serial or USB ports in bios, to free up IRQ's.

 

[Cybordolphin]

I did try different PCI slots... to no avail...

I might try dissabling the USB's, etc..
I was concerned that would keep the card from working though. Will give it a shot.

Thanks.

 

[Cybordolphin]

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[passign]

I bought a lucent firewire card..... and 2 80gig western digital 7200 hard drives that came in an external firewire bay/case...


it worked ok.... i say ok cause when the drive was under stress... unraring divX's etc... it would suddenly give me a random write error and i'd have to reboot to get it working again.. this was a pain cause i was downloading stuff to it.. so i'd have find the ftp and resume downloads etc...

well a few day's ago i took the drives outta the case .. just took the card outta the pci slot.... so basically just using the drives in udma mode? or whatever ata??? anyway- now i got 2 external firewire cases the nice looking ones.. with a lucent firewire card and the cables.... maybe I should try to sell them? or I may through the cd/dvd player in there? not sure



also when I ran sandra on the external firewire drives that would also give me the random write errors.. sounds either like a driver problem, card problem, or somethin? anyway, it annoyed me enough to take the drives out and put them inside the case... seems like there much faster now to