New Canopus, New Problems

Yug wrote on 1/7/2003, 9:15 PM
My new ADVC-100 arrived today and I have still no response to the support email request I sent over a week ago about a firewire card which I had bought and if it would work with this product. But today I have a new problem. When I hook up the ADVC-100 to the machine it was intended for, (AMD Athlon XP 2400, ASUS A7V8X Motherboard, 512 Meg PC-2700 DDR ram, 2x WD/HD's 7200rpm, Win XP Pro OS) the computer keeps saying that there is a new piece of hardware connected through my firewire card which it does not recognize.

I have an old PIII 700 with a shuttle motherboard and 512 meg of pc-100 ram. When the unit is connected to this computer with the same firewire card, it does recognize the ADVC-100 as a microsoft video camera.

My new system was put together for nothing but video editing and is very fast, powerful and has sufficient storage for what I want to do. What is the problem with recognition on the ADVC-100.

Please help me, I have tried posting questions on the Canopus forum and people only said they had the same type of problem and no one including Canopus gave any response. I have even emailed Canopus support a couple of times with no response at all (maybe they need more time). I heard about the ADVC-100 on this forum and it did come very highly recommended. I just wish I could get a chance to see how great it really is.

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 1/8/2003, 9:50 AM
I use a Supermicro 1 gig board with pentium111 and the ADVC 100 hooked up
via the Creative sound card audigy firewire jack and no problems. The microsoft
camera driver comes up fine. (Also Win2k ops.) XP is famous for having most all
of the necessary drivers. If I was going to "pounce" on something it would be
motherboard drivers or brand of firewire card. Doesn't your motherboard already
have a firewire port? Seems to me that being that new it should have. My
thoughts are to get that ADVC-100 to work with your system no matter what.
Kind of like General Patton. Check your motherboard manufacturer for the latest
drivers which might pertain to the firewire card and/or Canopus. Also check for
the latest microsoft driver of which there is definitley a new one.

James J. Kizak
JJKizak wrote on 1/9/2003, 3:53 PM
Just found out from my guru buddy that most likely your
firewire card is not the latest and that is why your new superfasto
computer will not recognize the canopus.

James J. Kizak