Hey guys,

I've tried every single suggestion so far, but to no avail. I just wanna say thanks to you all for taking the time to help me out.

I'm gonna reformat this weekend and hopefully that may somehow help me.

I'm an unemployed, full-time Uni student, so buying a pro-capture-card is outta the question.

I'm sure I'll figure something out.

Thanks again guys. Truly appreciate it.

try removing your FW card, startup up windows, quiting, reinstall FW card and startup again. maybe windows will see the card as "new hardware" and force a reinstall.

try another FW port on the card

also try updating drivers for the card, and XP system update

you could also try another FW card. given that will be $10-$15US, that might be the better solution. could just be that the FW card you have is bad.