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by alloy

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Ihave 2 external hard drives with usb and firewire connections.. they work fine on usb but not firewire... also my panasonic camcorder is not now recognised on firewire connection... it comes up as 'unknown device' in device manager
the 1394 controller is shown as working correctly in device manager .. is there any way i can test to isolate the problem .. beginning to think all 3 devices are fried.. running xp home by the way

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by arujammer

I've had this problem before when installing a firewire card.
The problem was, because this card had the same IRQ number as my network card.

The solution was to take out the firewire card, start the pc,shutdown the pc, install the firewire card using another pci slot and restart the pc.

Seems that firewire doesn't work when it's on the same IRQ as another device. Even if it said that's working correctly in device manager

by alloy

thanks gilbertorman .. why didnt i check the IRQ . 3 on IRQ17.. now have motherboard firewire working through 4 wire port to XHDD but not 7 wire... so am getting a 4 to 4 cable so i can try the camcorder... thanks for your help

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