Firewire on A7N8X Deluxe at DVinfo.net

Jun Galinato · May 14th, 2003, 10:23 AM

Hello,
I upgraded my mother board and installed WinXP Pro SP1 and adobe premiere but I cannot get my camcorder to work, any help please? My camcorder is VX2000 and is connected to firewire. My uncle's TRV510 digital 8 works flawlessly. Yes I can capture but it can't export to tape or play realtime. I only gets a gray blocks. Thanks for any help.

Jun

Jun Galinato · May 15th, 2003, 05:26 PM

I solved my problem, I bought a cheap firewire card at compusa and works ok now.

Glen Elliott · May 16th, 2003, 10:21 AM

Nice MB by the way. I was looking into upgrading mine. Uses dual-channel ddr ram right. I'm using the A7v333 now but I have to run some sort of weird Pinnacle Performance Enhancer patch with my DV500 card to get the needed PCI performance to cease getting black frames. Even with it I sporaticaly see a black frame from time to time in between transitions or clips.

Jun Galinato · May 16th, 2003, 04:02 PM

Yes its really nice motherboard but I hate the firewire port (won't work with my Two camcorders, both sony).

Doug Thome · May 18th, 2003, 07:46 AM

I hooked up the dac-100 converter to the firewire card provided with the mb and it worked first time. I captured to Vegas and will try Avid express later. I'll try a camcorder down the road. My OS is same as yours.

Doug

Andrew Petrie · May 18th, 2003, 05:23 PM

They are great motherboards, but I opted for the VIA based boards instead. Their SATA implementaiton allows for an additional channel for IDE devices, while the n-Force is stuck with 4. I really needed that 5th channel! :)

MB Manufacturers however, have a nasty habit of configuring the onboard firewire to share an IRQ with IDE or a RAID controller. Very poorly implemented, so for our needs a 3rd party FireWire card is a must.

I'm currently utilizing the FireWire port on my Audigy2 Platinum drive.

Nick Glenister · May 22nd, 2003, 10:48 AM

Out of interest have you tried using the on board firewire ports since you installed the firewire card? The reason i ask is that on my motherboard i have usb2 and the onboard usb2 wouldn't recognise my scanner. I had to put in the usb2 card supplied with my scanner in order to get it to work. However after installing the drivers for the card the onboard usb2 ports now work too.

REgards

Garret Ambrosio · May 22nd, 2003, 02:57 PM

Drivers, drivers, drivers. Nick when you installed the new card it may have installed the OS updates for USB 2.0. It may have also installed the new, more compatible USB 2.0 driver, which in turn the OS used for the other device as well.

Jun, the IEEE 1394 port on the A7N8X Deluxe works just fine, I am using it for all my cameras and my externeal HDD. I suggest getting the newest NForce drivers from NVidia and trying them out. Also check your BIOS IRQ's.

Nick Glenister · May 23rd, 2003, 02:03 AM

<<<-- Originally posted by Garret Ambrosio : Drivers, drivers, drivers. Nick when you installed the new card it may have installed the OS updates for USB 2.0. It may have also installed the new, more compatible USB 2.0 driver, which in turn the OS used for the other device as well.->>>

Yes it did, that was what i was suggesting had happened to my computer.

I figured it was plausable that this could have happened to Jun's computer too and that he might find that the onboard ports now also work.

I was just a passing comment.

Regards

Nick

May 14th, 2003, 10:23 AM	#1
Jun Galinato Major Player Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Auburn, Washington Posts: 231	Firewire on A7N8X Deluxe Hello, I upgraded my mother board and installed WinXP Pro SP1 and adobe premiere but I cannot get my camcorder to work, any help please? My camcorder is VX2000 and is connected to firewire. My uncle's TRV510 digital 8 works flawlessly. Yes I can capture but it can't export to tape or play realtime. I only gets a gray blocks. Thanks for any help. Jun __________________ Sony Z7U, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105 F4L, Canon 70-200 F2.8L, Canon 580 EXII, Zoom H2.

May 15th, 2003, 05:26 PM	#2
Jun Galinato Major Player Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Auburn, Washington Posts: 231	I solved my problem, I bought a cheap firewire card at compusa and works ok now. __________________ Sony Z7U, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105 F4L, Canon 70-200 F2.8L, Canon 580 EXII, Zoom H2.

May 16th, 2003, 04:02 PM	#4
Jun Galinato Major Player Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Auburn, Washington Posts: 231	Yes its really nice motherboard but I hate the firewire port (won't work with my Two camcorders, both sony). __________________ Sony Z7U, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105 F4L, Canon 70-200 F2.8L, Canon 580 EXII, Zoom H2.

May 18th, 2003, 07:46 AM	#5
Doug Thome New Boot Join Date: May 2003 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 24	I have the a7n8x dlx also I hooked up the dac-100 converter to the firewire card provided with the mb and it worked first time. I captured to Vegas and will try Avid express later. I'll try a camcorder down the road. My OS is same as yours. Doug

May 18th, 2003, 05:23 PM	#6
Andrew Petrie Major Player Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 484	They are great motherboards, but I opted for the VIA based boards instead. Their SATA implementaiton allows for an additional channel for IDE devices, while the n-Force is stuck with 4. I really needed that 5th channel! :) MB Manufacturers however, have a nasty habit of configuring the onboard firewire to share an IRQ with IDE or a RAID controller. Very poorly implemented, so for our needs a 3rd party FireWire card is a must. I'm currently utilizing the FireWire port on my Audigy2 Platinum drive. __________________ Andrew \| Canon XL1s, ME66, Vinten Vision 3, GlideCam V16 (for sale!)

May 16th, 2003, 10:21 AM	#3
Glen Elliott Wrangler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 2,898	Nice MB by the way. I was looking into upgrading mine. Uses dual-channel ddr ram right. I'm using the A7v333 now but I have to run some sort of weird Pinnacle Performance Enhancer patch with my DV500 card to get the needed PCI performance to cease getting black frames. Even with it I sporaticaly see a black frame from time to time in between transitions or clips.

May 22nd, 2003, 10:48 AM	#7
Nick Glenister Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UK - Norfolk Posts: 95	Out of interest have you tried using the on board firewire ports since you installed the firewire card? The reason i ask is that on my motherboard i have usb2 and the onboard usb2 wouldn't recognise my scanner. I had to put in the usb2 card supplied with my scanner in order to get it to work. However after installing the drivers for the card the onboard usb2 ports now work too. REgards

May 22nd, 2003, 02:57 PM	#8
Garret Ambrosio Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Vallejo, CA Posts: 263	Drivers, drivers, drivers. Nick when you installed the new card it may have installed the OS updates for USB 2.0. It may have also installed the new, more compatible USB 2.0 driver, which in turn the OS used for the other device as well. Jun, the IEEE 1394 port on the A7N8X Deluxe works just fine, I am using it for all my cameras and my externeal HDD. I suggest getting the newest NForce drivers from NVidia and trying them out. Also check your BIOS IRQ's. __________________ "USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." -David Letterman

May 23rd, 2003, 02:03 AM	#9
Nick Glenister Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UK - Norfolk Posts: 95	<<<-- Originally posted by Garret Ambrosio : Drivers, drivers, drivers. Nick when you installed the new card it may have installed the OS updates for USB 2.0. It may have also installed the new, more compatible USB 2.0 driver, which in turn the OS used for the other device as well.->>> Yes it did, that was what i was suggesting had happened to my computer. I figured it was plausable that this could have happened to Jun's computer too and that he might find that the onboard ports now also work. I was just a passing comment. Regards Nick