RE: Ieee firewire stopped working with Sony DV TRV camera

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From: AndrewH (AndrewH_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:49:03 -0700

I've had a similar problem. Try plugging the cable into a different firewire
port (assuming you have more than one). If that doesn't work than take out
the firewire PCI card and put into a different PCI port on your computer.
Hope it works!

"Ikala" wrote:

> My Sony camera was working fine with firewire capture until the other day
> when suddenly it froze every application I tried to use with it. I hadn't
> used it for a few months and then plugged it in and it won't capture.
>
> The computer does recognize the device and says Sony camcorder. It asks what
> program I want to record with. Then no mattter which program I choose, the
> program will become unresponsive and I have to quit it.
>
> I took the cable and camera to a store and plugged it into their computers
> and it worked fine. So it must be the computer. They suggested that maybe the
> memory is full but I do have 488MB Ram free plus 80 G hard drive. They also
> suggested the ports are bad but that means both are bad and it recognizes the
> camcorder so I doubt that is the answer.
>
> By the way the USB capture still works fine but the quality is too low for
> use.
>
> Help????
>

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