Firewire Card Recommendations?

briz_dad wrote on 9/5/2003, 12:38 PM

Anyone have a recommendation for a firewire card for a PC... currently using a Piro but it is toast I believe... having trouble going out, amongst other things and have checked devices, cables... card seems to be the last item to change...

by the way,this is for a PC running W2000

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firefighter wrote on 9/5/2003, 2:07 PM

I had 4 different firewire cards in my PC to try and correct an output problem. Guess what, it wasn't the firewire card. It was the bios on the motherboard. (Dell 8200) Upgraded the bios and everything has worked perfect ever since. Have 3 spare fire wire cards now. Good thing they were cheap!

DavidPJ wrote on 9/6/2003, 9:51 AM

I use an Adaptec combo USB card and it works fine. Search on this forum for many threads on this topic.

DataMeister wrote on 9/6/2003, 11:44 AM

In my experience with a few different firewire cards, they all seem to work good. Kind of like Ethernet cards. Most of them just work. Besides, all they are doing is just shuttleing data back and forth.

JBJones

vitalforce2 wrote on 9/6/2003, 3:09 PM

firefighter: May I ask what BIOS you updated to? I have a stock Dell 8200 (Desktop) and I think the original BIOS is something like version A06?