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Firewire Help....wont work????

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Kgallacher
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Ok so my computer didnt have a firewire port so i had to go buy a chip and stuff to get a firewire port so i finaly i get it all finshed installed in my computer but then i go to my SONY vegas 8.0 and go to capture and it cant fine my device i dont know what to do can you help me out????

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Dec 27 2007 10:17PM
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Billek
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does your computer know it has the fire wire port? try updating the drivers too.
Dec 27 2007 10:46PM
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Kgallacher
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is it the wire?beaucse one kid said htat the wire that came with it didnt work..?????
Dec 27 2007 10:47PM
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Alex_thedroog
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it shouldn't be the wire.  like said try updating your drivers.  if that doesn't work give reinstalling it a try.
Dec 27 2007 10:49PM
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Kgallacher
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how do i update the drivers????
Dec 27 2007 10:57PM
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Kgallacher
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BUMP
Dec 27 2007 11:14PM
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Alex_thedroog
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control panel-administrative tools-computer management-device manager

then to the right you will see all of your devices.  look for the one labeled IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers, or something similar.  expand it and you will see your card.   right click and you will get a drop menu.  from there click update drivers.
Dec 28 2007 12:33PM
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Kgallacher
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but to update a driver it says i need a like CD or soemthing but ya i dont have one im so confused.....also it says this in general for location PCI Slot 1 (PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0)  what does that mean
Dec 28 2007 2:45PM
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Alex_thedroog
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look up the manufacturers website and see if you can download any software for it. 
and for the pci slot 1 it looks like it is saying that there is nothing in that slot, or your firewire card might not be plugged in properly.  if you did it yourself you have to push it in quite a ways.  I though I was going to break it at first.

tell me if that helps.
Dec 28 2007 6:42PM
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Kgallacher
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ok so i got the car working and so on thats fine and such but when i go to capture nothing comes up so i called the place where i bought it and  the guy said 9 times out of 10 it is the cord beaucse its so frgile and so on but ya any more tips on what it could be??
Dec 28 2007 6:46PM
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Alex_thedroog
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I can't really think of anything else right now.  I would try a new cord, and if that doesn't work it could be your camera.
Dec 28 2007 8:34PM
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