Test for ieee 1394 firewire

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I have a homebuilt PC with a Aopen MOBO, 3gig Intel, XP Pro Sp2 that I biuld about 2 years ago. I have been using Adobe Premiere Element 1.0 sometimes on this computer but I hadn't edited or downloaded and video to it for about 6 months or used the firewire for anything else for that matter. A few days ago I tried to download a video file from a camera and I could get the capture. I checked all the setting and they looked fine and I check system hardware and that looked OK. I took the same camera and cable to work where I have Premiere 3.0 and downloaded what I wanted without a hitch. I just tried it again at home and still nothing. I tried reinstalling the program and nothing. Its like the firewire doesn't exist. I get no 'new hardware found" message when I plug in the camera. I don't remember if I got that message before or not.
1. How can I tell if the IEEE 1394 is functioning?
2. Am I missing a setting somewhere? I've installed a few different programs since last using Premiere but they have been audio programs like the latest version of Winamp and Audacity or MS Office. I can't see where any of them would change anything because I don't think they even use firewire.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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Go to network connections in the control panel. You should see your 1394 port there. Check status and possibly repair.
 

bruceb

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Do you have a spare Firewire cable to try ? ? ... This would isolate a bad cable
Do you have another device with Firewire to try ? ? .. If OK then device is messed up. If bad suspect
firewire port on computer or possibly driver issue.

Did you try reinstalling the Firewire drivers ? ? Go into Device Manager and delete the
Firewire in there. Reboot and windows should reinstall proper drivers by itself or you may need
to do so manually with a cd or file on the hard drive.