camcorder not recognized through firewire

[Nien]

OK. I've had enough!!!

If I can't find a solution to this problem I'm going to drown myself in Bill Gates' pool!

In short, my Panasonic DV camera worked fine on my PC with XP and SP1.
I now have a Sony Vaio laptop, also running XP but with SP2 loaded. Now the camera isn't detected. I've installed hotfixes, uninstalled SP2, formatted, reverted to factory settings, camera not detected, reinstalled SP2. STILL NO JOY!!!

Does anyone have a solution? If not my hardware is going to find itself neatly inserted into a microsoft help desk employee's orifice!

[Nien]

Oh and by the way...

Speedy, that link looks promising. I only wish I could get through the Microsoft validation process

[MJS]

I've not been able to duplicate the problem, so I can't help fix it. Everyone I know that has upgraded to SP2 is doing just fine with their cameras.

Sorry about that.

[Nien]

I found the solution!!!!!

Assuming you have service pack 2 installed ...

Go to your control panel. Select the "security center" icon. Turn your windows firewall OFF.

Try connecting your camera now. TA DA!!!!

Hope this solves everyone's problem. It took me four days to figure this out.

[MJS]

Windows was treating your firewire connection like a network connection and automatically firewalled itself when you installed the service pack. You can fix the problem on the firewire connection only by going to Start/Control panel/Network connections and then right clicking on the firewire, 1394 connection. Then left click on properties, the advanced tab and uncheck the protect my computer button. That will take the firewall off of just the firewire if you want to keep your network connection safe.

Great job finding the problem. Good luck with the rest of it.

[philter]

I have been suffering with this problem too - after installing SP2 camcorder + PC just will NOT play!!!
Apparently IT IS a Microsoft issue - basically they have tightened up drivers to meet IEEE 1394 specs more closely - so drivers no longer recognise many devices as being FIREWIRE devices at all.
Anyway after trying many 'Fixes' to no avail - I found this set of instructions and BINGO my Panasonic NV-GX7 is working fine now - no problems at all!!
Hope this helps you and if you can spread the word (link) as there seems to be a lot of people struggling with this problem. Why Microshaft have not addressed this issue is totally beyond me, Christ! - they've had long enough to sort it!!!!

http://www.rme-audio.de/english/techinfo/fw800sp2.htm

Philter

[tommygun]

thanks guys, I would have never thought of that myself, as I had windows firewall turned OFF, yet it was still blocking the IEEE 1394 (firewire) connection !

I am posting a pic to help anyone else having the same trouble

You need to uncheck this option to get firewire working again.

Damn you MS with your silly updates changing our settings without us knowing about it.

[lagoausente]

Hello, I have problems with my DV Canon DV800.
Have Thinkpad T40. SP1 installed.
A cardbus-pcmcia adapter with Texas instruments chipset.

The camera and the carbus adapter works ok in a Dell at my work that has SP2, but in my T40 can´t capture nothing, with no app. Can recognize the camera but no data captured, even with Sp1.
Drivers are ok in device manager, camera slowly detected, but detected, 0 frames captured.

Have searched and researched, the only thing I have found was about disabling a option in Bios, what have done but didn´t work either, so don´t know what more to do, unless recored my movies in the Dell at work...

Any idea?