[Aussie Mike]

Eureka!!!

I have a working firewire card!!!

I bought a new Adaptec fire wire card to replace my Pinacle systems card that was giving so much trouble. Well the Adaptec card wouldn't even install and I bought it because Adaptec have a cood reputation for compatibility. It turns out that XP professional has a bug (surprise surprise) where on ocasion it will not allow you to ad certain hardware, My friend had a heap of trouble trying to get his Audigy DTS sound card installed. It turns out there is a problem with the registry (that microsoft can't explain) that for some reason rejects the installation of some cards after XP has been running for a while. A friend who is a MCSE guru disovered the fix after a lot of searching through the tech buletin boards. I'm no expert so I've probably got some of this explanation wrong.

The upshot of it all is that I'll finally be able to download all of my DVSFII video and burn it to CD. So for all those people waiting you shouldn't have to wait much longer.

Cheers