If you have dropped frames on CardBus, try this. . .

asafb wrote on 2/14/2002, 2:22 PM
Dear Users:

I have a Dell 700MHz P3 notebook. I bought a Western Digital CardBus 1394 adaptor.
However, it has given me bad results. After about 6 minutes, I get 1 dropped frame,
then another. That's unacceptable to me; trust me, you'll notice it, also the audio will click.

I returned it to CompUSA, and I got the Maxtor instead. Now listen: the Maxtor has this annoying dongle thing where you have to connect it to the PCCard - don't like that! However, I tested this little sucker - I captured 60 minutes of video into
Video Capture 3.0 from Vegas 3.0 and it worked beautifully - 0 dropped frames.
I was too tired to wait another 4 hours. I also connected my Cobra+ Hard Drive 80MB FireWire drive to this sucker as well, and used that drive to capture the video. When I used my laptop's HD, I dropped 500 frames! Wow...

So, avoid getting the Western Digital, it didn't work for me. The other thing I had to do was to turn OFF *all*, and I repeat, *ALL* background garbage! This means: No standby, full power, Automatic updating off, network card off, no indexing service, then hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, and stop the following process: FAST.exe !! This is the stupid index service that'll screw around with your video - trust me. Also, set Windows XP (if you have that OS) to Best Performance, NOT best appearance, and turn off any background images for your desktop.

Keep in mind that this worked for my 700MHz Pentium III with 128MB Ram, which is like the minimum here, but you can still get away with this slow computer.

Any responses would really help, and I apologize for the long post.

AB2K2

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