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Dead Firewire?

post #1 of 5
5/31/04 at 1:18pm
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My firewire controller has apparently spontaneously stopped working on me. I plugged in my (Oxford 911+realtek 8801 based) enclosure, and got no response. however, i've had trouble in the past with the enclosure and this computer when i had a 160gb drive in it, so i tried dis and re connecting the drive. when it didnt respond i checked in the device manager under XP and disvovered that the firewire controller was, in window's typical uninformative manner, "This device cannot start. (Code 10)". I've tried the usual collection of things (rebooted, restored, cant replace the driver since its OHCI baed, and tried a different device on this computer) only thing i havent been able to check is the drive on another computer, since my other FW capible machine is borrowed out right now. any idea on what could have gone wrong/how to fix it?
The enclosure works over USB at the moment, but its never actually worked at 2.0 speeds, so its too slow to be useful (large file storage and backup).
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post #2 of 5
5/31/04 at 5:29pm
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i'm going to make a seperate post to answer my own question, and then go look at that enclosure reccomendation thread, it would appear my NewMotion 3.5" IDE enclosure has died and was doing somethign to the firewire bus on the system, it works after a power cycle, mounted the drive for a moment then crashed, and works again after another power cycle. and works fine with my Nomad3.
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post #3 of 5
6/14/04 at 2:49am

Similar Problem

I've had a similar problem before. I took it in to get it serviced (thought that the port had been fried or something). After a few days, I picked it up from the service center. The guy said he simply reinstalled all the drivers from the clevo website. (www.clevo.com.tw - Clevo is the maker for sager). Since I didn't do it myself, I can't say why it worked... only that it did. In addition, the firewire port on my Sager is very picky. I had to buy a better quality cable for it to work. A lower quality cable, I noticed I had to insert it halfway in or else it would just connect and then drop the connection. Hope this helps.
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post #4 of 5
8/18/04 at 12:08am
I can't seem to find the drivers for the Fire Wire at the clevo site. I am haveing the same problem. I can't hook up my DV cam to upload my movies, and it is driving me crazy trying to figure out what it wrong... can someone direct me to the correct drivers?
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post #5 of 5
8/18/04 at 5:37pm
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the 4080's firewire port is OHCI compliant-- its drivers are built in to windows, and cannot be seperately installed. i've since that last post found that when my firewire port fails for some reason, reinstalling the audio drivers and rebooting will restore it to operation. other than the fact that both are built on Realtek chips i'm baffled as to why that helps.
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