Help! My Win 7 PC stopped seeing my ADVC-100!

KeyofG wrote on 8/25/2012, 11:53 AM
I tried to load in some VHS film into Vegas 9 and discovered that ,y PC is no longer even seeing my Canopus ADVC-100 converter. This unit doesn't require drivers and it seems to be working just fine. I'm running the S-video out from my VCR into the ADVC and out into my firewire port on my PC. Neither Vegas or my Wind DVD capture software sees the device, I REALLY NEED TO GET THIS UP AND RUNNING RIGHT AWAY! Can anyone
here help me with this?

My Rig:
Nuendo 4.3 | Windows 7 Pro (SP 1) | Intel i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 Quad Core | 12GB of RAM |RME HDSPe RayDAT | PNY ? 9500GT 1GB PCIe Dual Head DVI Video Card | Xkeys | UAD-1 Platinum | Isotope RX | Melodyne 3.2 | Voxengo Plugins | B4 II | EZ Drummer | Drumagog 4 | Virtual Guitarist 2 | Korg, Roland, Kurzweil Synths | Apogee Big Ben | Panasonic DA-7 desk | Mackie 824 monitors | VS-1680 & 880 HDR's |

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 8/25/2012, 12:35 PM
The converter doesn't require a driver but it does require a firewire port driver be working. Check that in Device Manager.

Here is a reference to a sister device with which Grazie struggled.

If you find the link is dead, try here. Possibly, someone though the site was not appropriate but the information on working with the driver is just as valid.
videoITguy wrote on 8/25/2012, 2:20 PM
In -short restore setting your WIN7 OS to use the legacy firewire driver. 99% of the causes of firewire problems are due to not using the legacy standard.
KeyofG wrote on 8/25/2012, 3:06 PM
Okay, I restored the drivers to the legacy version. I noticed that one of my external drives, which uses a firewire connection had also gone down. So that was clearly looking like the "Smoking Gun." When I went to the legacy version, the Seagate drive came back online immediately. But my WinDV capture app is still showing the "No device connected" message. This is soooo frustrating!
KeyofG wrote on 8/25/2012, 4:10 PM
Okay, I got it back! WinDV won't see it but Vegas (which is waay more important) will! Thank you soo much for all your help!