Never trust anything a brand new cable can be faulty as can a 10 year old
one which worked yesterday.

You must test all the components with ones you can see working in front of
your eyes, so beg/steal/borrow a cam/pc and cable.

Again, Device manager will tell you if the firewire port is error free in
connection etc, but not error free physically.

http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Probl...notCapture.htm

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Harry Williams" <dramat@techie.com> wrote in message
news:eqWb3VV3IHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Yes to all you said. There is no error indicator under the IEEE 1394 Bus
> host controller. Device manager says device is working properly. Cable is
> brand new (Belkin).
>
> -------------------------...A cynic does not read bitter lessons from the
> past; he is prematurely disappointed in the future...
>
> "LVTravel" <noone@nothere.com> wrote in message
> news:u2yn3jU3IHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "King Harry" <bitterbrush@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:C95E83CA-032B-4F11-A27F-3B764D5F50D4@microsoft.com...
>>> For a reason unknown to me, I am unable to import digital video from my
>>> Sony
>>> DCR-PC9. I connect to my PC from The camera via a Firewire (IEEE1394), 6
>>> pin
>>> to 4 pin. I am using WinXpMedia Edition. Keep getting on-screen message
>>> that
>>> the input device cannot be found. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> --
>>> Against stupidity even the Gods themselves battle in vain.
>>
>> Lets look at the obvious first. Camera turned on and in playback mode?
>> Absolutely sure the cable is good and plugged in all the way? Can you
>> see the Firewire card/adaptor in Device manager under "IEEE 1394 Bus host
>> controllers" without any error indication (yellow !)?
>>
>
>