everyone seems to be having the same problem, as am i, and no solution, and silence from microsoft. I'm beginning to get seriously pee'ed off here. When will there be a definite fix for this? This is looking like the iPhone issue and it's antennae. As of today, I can't use my digital cam corder, or any other device that uses firewire. Sound card, is unable to get a connection. Now, I had to take back all of the expensive equipment I bought to record music, because the external firewire Oh, and I did make sure to reboot after changing any of the driver settings. Choose the second option-1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy), and click next to update the driver. " and Check the box before “Show compatible hardware”.Ħ. "Ĥ- Select "Browse my computer for driver software"ĥ- Select "let me pick from a list of device driver on my computer. Manager, but it doesn't show up in M圜omputer when I open it.ġ- Click the Start Button, type devmgmt.msc in the “Start Search” box and press Enter.Ģ- Expand the "IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers" node in the device tree on the right hand paneģ- Right click the host controller node select "Update driver software. I bought my equipment in August, and started testing everything. I built this high speed machine to record music.
Of ram, on Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Edition, back in April. I just built a AMD quad core computer, running 6 gigs Is Microsoft donig anything to address this, or simply stating revert to legacy drivers? It seems to be affecting a lot of machines, and the legacy driver trick doesn't work for everyone. The additional rub here is that I CAN"T EVEN RUN IN XP MODE since there's Please let me know if there's anything in the works here that we can expect or if I have to continue spending all my time trying to get what used to work on XP working on Win7. Sdk or syscon toolkit and having to build a driver myself (which I still think won't work) MSFT has completly FAILED in terms of supporting IEEE 1394 on Win7. I've even read the whitepaper and tweaked registry settings. I am a computer professional and have tried ALL the TRICKS so please quit pawning off the (Legacy) driver stuff here. I have had my HP win7 64 bit Core i7 Q720 Ghz for 3 months now and I STILL CAN"T USE ANY OF THE IEEE 1394 devices for which I MISTAKINGLY thought moving to a faster machine and Windows 7 would provide me better performanceĪnd usability!!! My Motu 828 Firewire and other firewire devices are completely unusable on the Win7 platform.Ĭompletely FED UP here.
Someone at Microsoft please explain to me why these new drivers are used by default when they simply do not work with so many existing firewire devices?