Re: Mackie Onyx Satellite firewire / help get it working!


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Maybe a driver issue, have you got an "IEEE 1394 bus host
controllers"
entry in your device manager? If not perhaps the drivers aren't
installed
, although I would have thought XP would detect the card and
search for
drivers.

Andrew(lefty)


Hi Andrew, according to the Microsoft site you shouldn't need to
install
drivers as XP already supports firewire and just downloads what it
needs
when a card is inserted. This hasn't happened in my case! There is
no entry
for 'IEEE 1394 bus host controllers' in my device manager. I know
there was
in my previous PC because I remember seeing it.

This PC originally came with Vista but I got the guy that supplied
me with
it to put XP on instead (licensed) as I had a lot of software and
hardware
that wasn't Vista compatible. Perhaps something happened at that
point?

Cheers, Brian.


A bit of googling throws up a few ideas - this appears to be a quite
common problem.
Have a look at http://kadaitcha.cx/firewire.html and go from there?

George

Thanks for the link but I was kind of looking for an easy fix. Last
time I tried to fix something following details instructions like
that disaster ensued. At this point I think I'll settle for a USB2.0
product instead and sell the Mackie. It's a shame though 'cos it's
lovely!

Cheers,

Brian.


Before giving up , go here

http://www.unibrain.com/

Download ubCore and install it. It enables switching from Microsoft
IEEE controller to their own. May work , my JVC camcorder only works
with the MS option.

You could also try Driver Detective to automatically locate the proper
drivers for your motherboard chipset IEEE controller, and one other
thing occurs to me, is it possible to that IEEE 1394 support is
disabled in your BIOS ?

HTH

Andrew(lefty)


Thanks for your continued help Andrew. Tried the ubCore thing and it
said there were 'no 1394 adaptors on your system' so it couldn't work.
Then I tried the Driver Detective thing and it turned up nothing
Firewire related at all.

I'm not sure about the BIOS - I've never dealt with that before.

Cheers, B.


Last gasp attempt, it seems your pc is just not recognising the firewire
card you put in, have you tried a different slot ?


Andrew(lefty)

I'll have a look later on but I've a feeling I only have the one PCI
slot...

Thanks again!

Had a look inside the beast just now and I only have one PCI slot and two
of the other longer type (one of which has a graphics card in it). I tried
a new low profile USB card that I bought and bugger all happened. I think
(as Nick was saying) that the slot is knackered or something now so it's a
phone call to Dell in the morning.

Grrr.


Brian.


Keep us posted on what the man from Del... says.

Andrew(lefty)


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