Will help but does not resolve all issues.
The firewire 1394 drivers for Texas Instrument (TI) chipset from the link After hours spent in frustration it now works every time in a super fast way. Try to use the original cable or one by the same makers of the camera or device you are attaching. So either my 6 port does not work, or my 6/4 cable is not fully compatible. I plugged it in and voila - it worked straight away in Ubuntu, Win 7 and XP. Sony camera, a 4/4 firewire cable with purple end connections on a grey wire. I managed to find the original cable that came with my This is not the solution I was talking about. Maybe my camera was getting old? But I did connect and managed to transfer a whole 60 minute tape to my PC and transfer the 11 GB file to my USB and then my new system. I had to switch on my old XP Pro system to get a connection, although this was erratic and took a while to recognise. I connected my Sony DV Camcorder using a 6/4 firewire cable in Win 7, Ubuntu and XP but to no avail. It is a new PC so it drove me mad - BUT I HAVE A SOLUTION! I too have had this problem and none of the drivers worked.
Going to try partition the laptop and install XP on it and see if that solves everything, because XP usually does. I conclude i am not getting 400mb/s more like 37.5 on legacy and see FA on the pre installed driver.Īre Microsoft stupid. That was while it was only running the 1st 8 channels of audio.Įxpanding to 16 channels, gives me glitching Plug the Audio inferface back in and it seemed OK. The external HDD was now running quite quickly. i was only getting 1mb/s transfer!Ĭhanged to legacy, problem solved! or so i thought. definitely much better. Thought i had it figured after connecting an external hard drive via firewire. My 1st issue.blue screen when connecting firewire audio interface. The laptop broke but still under warranty, it was replaced, but of course windows 7(64bit) was out and had no choice due to laptops I am an audio professional and had a laptop from mobile gigs running vista with an RME Fireface firewire audio interface. everyone seems to be having the same problem, as am i, and no solution, and silence from microsoft. I'm beginning to get seriously pee'ed off here. When will there be a definite fix for this? This is looking like the iPhone issue and it's antennae. As of today, I can't use my digital cam corder, or any other device that uses firewire. Sound card, is unable to get a connection. Now, I had to take back all of the expensive equipment I bought to record music, because the external firewire
Oh, and I did make sure to reboot after changing any of the driver settings.
Choose the second option-1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy), and click next to update the driver. " and Check the box before “Show compatible hardware”.Ħ. "Ĥ- Select "Browse my computer for driver software"ĥ- Select "let me pick from a list of device driver on my computer. Manager, but it doesn't show up in M圜omputer when I open it.ġ- Click the Start Button, type devmgmt.msc in the “Start Search” box and press Enter.Ģ- Expand the "IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers" node in the device tree on the right hand paneģ- Right click the host controller node select "Update driver software. I bought my equipment in August, and started testing everything. I built this high speed machine to record music.
Of ram, on Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Edition, back in April. I just built a AMD quad core computer, running 6 gigs
Is Microsoft donig anything to address this, or simply stating revert to legacy drivers? It seems to be affecting a lot of machines, and the legacy driver trick doesn't work for everyone. The additional rub here is that I CAN"T EVEN RUN IN XP MODE since there's Please let me know if there's anything in the works here that we can expect or if I have to continue spending all my time trying to get what used to work on XP working on Win7. Sdk or syscon toolkit and having to build a driver myself (which I still think won't work) MSFT has completly FAILED in terms of supporting IEEE 1394 on Win7. I've even read the whitepaper and tweaked registry settings. I am a computer professional and have tried ALL the TRICKS so please quit pawning off the (Legacy) driver stuff here. I have had my HP win7 64 bit Core i7 Q720 Ghz for 3 months now and I STILL CAN"T USE ANY OF THE IEEE 1394 devices for which I MISTAKINGLY thought moving to a faster machine and Windows 7 would provide me better performanceĪnd usability!!! My Motu 828 Firewire and other firewire devices are completely unusable on the Win7 platform.Ĭompletely FED UP here. Someone at Microsoft please explain to me why these new drivers are used by default when they simply do not work with so many existing firewire devices?