firewire again...

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Chris Austin

Hi Lauren,

l a u r e n wrote:

oh and for all the fanboys... f*** off

:-D You love to stir it up don’t you. I had a similar problem with a Maxtor 300 GB firewire drive. It worked fine on my HP laptop & pair of homemade PCs and my Mac Mini. However, the thing just would not function with the new crappy Dell system that we bought. All of the PC systems were running Win XP (SP2) Pro. I tried updating the BIOS on the Dell & reinstalling all drivers and devices. Once that failed I dropped the crappy pre-installed disk image from Dell and reinstalled the OS. But the sorry Dell system just could not be forced to recognize the drive. I sat through hours of tech support calls with the *people* at Dell, and even forced them to honor their service plan and come out to work and "repair" the system. Two new main boards later I gave up and I am still fighting to get Dell to issue me a refund for their poor excuse for a PC. Sorry, I can’t really help. I just wanted to let you know that you aren’t the only one experiencing this type of issue. Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton

Matt Gerrans

I had to resist saying 20 years of doing something doesn't necessarily imply skill at it. After all, we can assume she's been using English language even longer and yet still cannot spell the word "you" and many others. ;P Matt Gerrans

Jim Crafton

Well, I wasn't laughing at her :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

Christian Graus

l a u r e n wrote:

why cant they get it right?

At a guess, because no motherboard that I know of comes with firewire, it's still not mainstream in the windows world. And I'd hazard a guess that the problem is more the firewire driver for your card than Windows itself.

l a u r e n wrote:

oh and for all the fanboys... f*** off

:laugh: You rock !! Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

l a u r e n

there is no driver for the card ... its the standard ms driver that xp installs as for the other bit... well im not trying to be rude but they _really_ get irritating ;)

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Here's an interesting but little known fact that might help you out. On my Toshiba laptop the USB 2.0 ports will not show up as USB 2.0 ports. They only show up as 1.1 ports (after I reload and install SP 2) until after I go into the Device Manager and delete them. Once I delete them I restart as prompted then Windows XP detects, reinstalls and voila they show up as proper USB 2.0 ports. I've never tried this with a Firewire port so I don't know if it will help or not. - Rex

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JWood

l a u r e n wrote:

L****

Ha ha ha ha. Wow a hot girl like you makin dirty word like that. Say L**** again some other context. I Built a house with my own hands and Hurricane Katrina came along and L****ed it. Hoo hoo hoo. jest kiddin.

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Arjan Schouten

Maybe you have the same problem I had when trying to connect my camcorder to my laptop. It just wouldn't see it, while it did on my other PC. As it seems, with SP2, Microsoft changed the Firewire software to operate always on S100, the lowest speed, what my camcorder obviously didn't support. After downloading this patch[^] everything worked ok. Also make sure your firewire ports aren't firewalled. Arjan

Brigg Thorp

That just ain't right man... Regards, Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation

realJSOP

It's a proven fact that Firewire storage devices run faster than USB stuff... Obsolete? I think not. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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Irate Pirate wrote:

What a worthless arrogant post poster.

STFU noob... Until you've been here a while (sustantially longer than "less than a month"), you have no right to voice an opinion on what or how lauren posts. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001