by: stingray1381 July 22, 2004 9:23 PM PDT
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Re: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all.
by R. Proffitt 
- 7/23/04 5:32 AM
In Reply to: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all. by stingray1381
"Tip: If you are asking for help to troubleshoot a computer-related problem, please be sure to include all the necessary information (ie: operating system, model number, hardware, software, etc) that will help others identify your problem for a speedy resolution."
You ignored the tip and as such I can't tell if your PC should work with such. For instance, what you write would be proper for many PCs that XP is installed on because the person who installed XP didn't install motherboard drivers, have a current BIOS or played with the BIOS settings. Some will tinker with plug and play services or firewall the machine to the point that many things just fail.
Your post left out the PC details and more.
Bob
Re: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all.
by stingray1381 - 7/23/04 6:19 AM
In Reply to: Re: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all. by R. Proffitt
Hi Bob,
Sorry about that. I have a home built computer that has Windows XP, SP 1 on it. The bios is not the most recent, but it is relatively current. I checked the latest bios revision to see if any changes had been made to anything related to the firewire ports, and nothing had. I installed all the drivers myself, and it has all the latest motherboard drivers and other drivers. The motherboard itself is an Abit NF7-S, it has a 2500xp AMD cpu with 1gig of corsair ram. I also have 3 hard drives, all Western Digital.
I made sure that the firewire ports are turned on in the bios, and they are and the ports themselves show up in the XP device manager. However, when I turn the camcorder on and set it to VCR and connect the camcorder through firewire, the computer doesn't recognize it at all. Absolutely nothing happens. The camcorder doesn't show up in device manager. So, it isn't a problem with actually capturing, it's a problem getting the camcorder to recognize the camcorder at all.
One other comment I should make is when connect the camorder and turn everything on, "DV In" shows up on the LCD. Should this be read "DV Out" since I am trying capture video from the tape? Just something odd I thought I would ask about.
Again the Camera is a Sony DCR-TRV38. Bob, if there is some bios setting that I need to make sure is a certain way please let me know. I know the firewire ports are turned on in the bios, and I tried a separate firewire card that I bought, and a new firewire cable, and still no change.
If someone could help me figure this out, I would be eternally grateful. Thanks.
P.S. I tried premiere and Ulead software, and of course they dont' work because XP doesn't see the camcorder
Re: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all.
by R. Proffitt - 7/23/04 8:11 AM
In Reply to: Re: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all. by stingray1381
The motherboard you noted is indeed one you need that latest BIOS and MOTHERBOARD DRIVERS or else it just may not work.
You can disconnect from the internet and uninstall Zone Alarm to see if that's it. I'm running into that too often as well as the BIOS/Motherboard driver issue.
Yes, it is odd about DV-IN. Check the manual again.
Bob
Re: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all.
by stingray1381 - 7/23/04 1:45 PM
In Reply to: Re: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all. by R. Proffitt
I'll update the bios when I get home from work, and see what's up. I'll let you know what happens. Hopefully, this fixes it. Thanks for the input.
Go back to USB.
by R. Proffitt - 7/23/04 3:59 PM
In Reply to: Please help me. XP won't recognize my camcorder at all. by stingray1381
Pixela ImageMixer isn't as jazzy, but does it work?
Bob
Re: Go back to USB.
by dvaryu - 8/14/04 8:09 PM
In Reply to: Go back to USB. by R. Proffitt
I'm no computer expert, but I do have some knowledge of camcorders, and I have experienced the same problem you have with a new XP computer not recognizing my camcorder at all. Unfortunately, this is a widespread problem in camcorder land...and the topic of the most extensive community forum thread I have ever seen. It's on Dell's site...look for the thread in the video editing subsection called, "Problem Recognizing DV camcorder via IEEE..."
What you'll find is that this plagues many owners of virtually all kinds of camcorders, and has proved immune to solution--and the guys in that thread seem to have tried everything. The last time I checked they seemed to have settled on some kind of problem inherent in XP...but there was no conclusive proof.
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