fire wire problem

fimms · Post by **fimms** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:39 pm

i bought a 4 pin to 4 pin for my laptop. but it didnt connected to my dcr pc109e via fire wire . idownloaded windv bt no help ...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:18 pm

Are you trying to connect the camera directly, or do you have it in its Handycam Station and have the firewire connected to that?

fimms · Post by **fimms** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:57 pm

i am trying on handy cam station

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:43 pm

Do you mean the actual 4-pin firewire cable will not plug into your handi-cam?

If that's true, you are either trying to plug into the wrong port or have the wrong cable. I know I have a USB cable that was supplied with my digital still camera for downloading the photos. Every now and then, I get fooled by this cable, because the smaller end, looks identical to the 4-pin end of my firewire cable. The other end of course does not, since it is USB.

Sony i-Link, IEEE-1394 or Apple/Mac.s "Firewire" is the standard, and those ports or jacks have to be a certain design and shape to be considered the "firewire" type. According to the specs found on your camcorder, it does have a firewire port, which is the 4-pin size. So if you have an actual 4-pin Firewire cable, it should plug into it.

Now I guess if physically fitting the cable into the handi-cam is not the problem, but that the program is not seeing the camcorder ignore the above..

First is your operating system recognizing that you have your camcorder plugged-into your PC via the Firewire? If your OS is not seeing it, then any program running on it is not going to be able to access it.

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:41 pm

Lots of things to check on here,

http://www.myvideoproblems.com/ProblemP ... apture.htm

I'd start with the testing

fimms · Post by **fimms** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:07 pm

yes i do have a i link socket at my station which clearly says i link and i do have 1394 port at my laptop . nw what should i do . i do have the fire wire cable n i do understand the diffrence between usb n fire wire cable .........plz help

2Dogs · Post by **2Dogs** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:30 pm

Did you check out all the many things mentioned in Graham's link?

Make sure to go thru all of that and then report back about the exact nature of your problem.

Can you confirm that your pc is "seeing" your IEEE 1394 Bus host controller in device manager?

fimms · Post by **fimms** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:05 am

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:30 am

Yes means what?
Yes you checked out the link?
Yes you did everything suggested in the link?
Yes the ieee controller is seen?

Can you list the results to all the tests you did, so
when trying another camcorder and cable it worked?
Your camcorder and cable worked in another pc?
What set-up did this pc have?
You tried another type of firewire product, such as an external drive and this worked ok on your pc?

When you plugged in the camcorder you got a balloon saying new hardware installed......................

I could go on, but we need help from you to help you. There are lots of questions on that page we need answers to.