So, I am using a Sony DCR-TRV740 and I have a firewire card(startech) with two ports on it. I plug in the camera and it doesnt work. I try another cable and it still isn't detected. Computer says the firewire pci card is working fine. I connect to my friends computer with cable and camera and it works like a charm. Any ideas? Drivers? Bios? I have a pretty new computer, I hope that's not the problem 2 gigs of ram 2 harddrives(master is 80 gig)(slave is 320 gig for video editing) Gigabyte Mobo(k8 triton series GA-K8NS Pro) Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Radeon 9800 pro 128mb AMD athlon 64 bit 3000+ ....ideas? Thanks a lot, Mike
Try unistalling the card in windows device manager, than re-boot and let windows find the card again.
I had the same problem with my Sony TRV 530. It turned out the firewire card was not compatible with my cam. So I purchased a Pinnacle firewire card (sold as a Sony kit), and it worked great. You may want to look for newer drivers for your firewire card, but Windows may use the default operating system drivers. http://www.startech.com/downloads/section_download.cfm You may want to find out what card your friend uses and purchase that card since you know it works. With a new computer I know you don't want to spend anymore money, but it may save you a lot of aggravation in the long run. Good luck
