I just received my Firewire PCMCIA card from Compgeeks today. I plugged it into my EVO N400C notebook and the card was detected and installed w/o a hitched. I hooked up my Sony digital camcorder and was able to capture video from the camcorder. I thought everything was good, but apparently not.
I tried safely removing the card by through the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon on the system tray. I am running WinXP Pro by the way. Anyway, the "Safely Remove Hardware" window appeared and I could choose to remove my firewire card. The problem, however, is that the system doesn't remove. The SRH window just sat there and when I moved my mouse cursor anywhere around the SRH window, it would appear as the hour-glass icon. I could start other applications, but I just couldn't remove the firewire card. And when I tried to restart my system after that, the computer wouldn't shut down.
I believe because of the above problem, I couldn't put my laptop in stand-by mode either. I would see the "Please wait while windows is switching to standby mode" window, but the computer wouldn't go into stand-by mode as well.
So far, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the firewire card driver, but it didn't help. I also called Compaq Tech support but was told they couldn't do anything since there is no other occurence of a similar problem in their database. Any help would be much appreciated.
-lankia
I tried safely removing the card by through the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon on the system tray. I am running WinXP Pro by the way. Anyway, the "Safely Remove Hardware" window appeared and I could choose to remove my firewire card. The problem, however, is that the system doesn't remove. The SRH window just sat there and when I moved my mouse cursor anywhere around the SRH window, it would appear as the hour-glass icon. I could start other applications, but I just couldn't remove the firewire card. And when I tried to restart my system after that, the computer wouldn't shut down.
I believe because of the above problem, I couldn't put my laptop in stand-by mode either. I would see the "Please wait while windows is switching to standby mode" window, but the computer wouldn't go into stand-by mode as well.
So far, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the firewire card driver, but it didn't help. I also called Compaq Tech support but was told they couldn't do anything since there is no other occurence of a similar problem in their database. Any help would be much appreciated.
-lankia
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