I have a Mach Speed K8M8MS MB with an AMD 3700 64 xp cpu. I'm using win xp home. My case has front firewire but the board did not have headers for it. I have tried 2 different PCI firewire cards with an internal pin header. I get the cards to show in the device manager but can not get drivers installed. The drivers are not available on cd. I was told by support that the drivers are basic windows drivers. I have tried both cards in 3 different PCI slots. They were assigned an IRQ and IRQ was not shared. I took both cards and tried on a different computer and they both worked.I have been tinkering with this for about 3 months on and off and am very frustrated. Can anyone PLEASE PLEASE HELP. Thank you VERY much

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If the card installs without the front Header being connected, then the Front case port may have a problem. I have a case that did the same thing with a usb 2 port. It turned out the the cable to the Front Case port had a couple wires crossed.

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didn't even get that far with it Steve. It is just in the pci slot showing in the device manager but can not install drivers. So it isn't the fact of the front port not working.

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Not sure about what to check. I have put in a few firewire Cards on 32 bit systems, and the Drivers just installed with no added effort.

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so the device manager sees the cards.... yellow exclamation point next to the device name? what name is the card? but i don't see why windows don't install its own driver.


On Saturday, July 1, 2006 at 6:10 pm, Phil wrote:
>didn't even get that far with it Steve. It is just in the pci slot showing in the
>device manager but can not install drivers. So it isn't the fact of the front port
>not working.

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Is the card recognized as an OHCI compliant 1394 controller, or just as a mysterious 
something that can't figure out what it is?

The only time I have ever had a card not be recognized when being plugged into a 
functional PCI slot was a modem.  It turned out that on this particular computer 
which had been in service for a while and was a little dusty inside, some dust had 
worked its way into the slot and was preventing contact on the "golden fingers" that 
are responsible for transmitting the ID of the card.

So if you think that might be it, yank the card, give the chassis a REALLY good blowout 
with compressed air, and it wouldn't hurt to run the golden fingers with a soft pencil 
eraser too.

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It is recognized as ohci. when trying to install drivers it says data invalid code 28. I tried the hotfix from microsoft website also. It was the same with both cards i tried.


On Saturday, July 1, 2006 at 8:33 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>Is the card recognized as an OHCI compliant 1394 controller, or just as a mysterious
>something that can't figure out what it is?
>
>The only time I have ever had a card not be recognized when being plugged into a
>functional PCI slot was a modem. It turned out that on this particular computer
>which had been in service for a while and was a little dusty inside, some dust had
>worked its way into the slot and was preventing contact on the "golden fingers" that
>are responsible for transmitting the ID of the card.
>
>So if you think that might be it, yank the card, give the chassis a REALLY good blowout
>with compressed air, and it wouldn't hurt to run the golden fingers with a soft pencil
>eraser too.

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1 of the cards is an ultra ult 31342 and the other is a VIA not sure of model #

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check this link for possibility of same problem..........http://www.mcse.ms/archive209-2005-6-1700789.html follow posts from person named "ks_crnhskr" to see if it relates to you.


On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 6:14 am, Phil wrote:
>1 of the cards is an ultra ult 31342 and the other is a VIA not sure of model #

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I would say no because i am not having a problem with it working properly. I can not get drivers installed.

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but did you check this about the plug and play driver section in device manager. 
 
  "Ahhhhh, very infuriating. Now it all works and I don't know why.
Here is what I did...

I re-installed the Firewire PCI card. I had never uninstalled the drivers
when I took the card out, so when I put it back they all appeared in the
device manager list with no balloons indicating new hardware had been
installed.

Then with the device manager open I selected "show hidden devices". I know,
I know, I committed the cardinal sin and didn't write down what I was
seeing... There was one driver in the "Non-Plug and Play Drivers" list that
had a yellow exclaimation point. It said something like "Intel SMbus 2.0".
I uninstalled it and rebooted figuring XP would reinstall the driver. It did
not.

So then I plugged the firewire cable into the camcorder and powered up in
the VCR mode. Lo and behold XP recognized the camcorder and Movie Maker
captured the video just fine."

So now I don't know if that Non-Plug and Play driver was the culprit or not.
I didn't change anything else.







On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 7:47 am, Phil wrote:

>I would say no because i am not having a problem with it working properly. I can 

>not get drivers installed. 

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their are no drivers to not uninstall, that is the problem, i can't get the drivers in. As far as the non plug and play show hidded devices their isn't anything that i 'd says has to do with the ieee1394 device.

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