Bought a canon dv camcorder with fireire lead but cannot find a port for the cable can u advise?

Question

we have a fujitsu siemns cordant pc snr 3865860261 and an advent laptop bought in april 9617 i cannot find a firewire port anywhere - any advice would be appreciated - cannot find user manuals for either nor can i find manuals to read on the net? please help?

Answer 1

listen up, you need to buy a 'firewire card' - do this STRAIGHT after you read my answer, they shouldn't cost you a fortune at all - if you are willing to wait, then try buying one from an indepenent online computer shop.  They fit into your PCI slot and offer you up to 3 ports, well the one I purchased back in the fall of 2001 does anyway.  I installed it in my AMD Athlon 500mhz pc at the time, and it did the trick - allowed me to transfer my dv camcorder footage with ease.

Nearly all machines today boast at least one firewire port, unless the machines are entry level ones that sacrifice a firewire port for memory card reader or something else.

I brought my dad an emachines pc, and it didnt have a firewire port - although it had 6 usb ports,2 pci-express slots, dual core 64 bit processors and 4 slots for DDR-3 ram !

So all you ahve to do is buy a firewire card, i dont think it should matter about the make as IEEE1394 is an industrial standard for firewire, under which any manufacturer can make the card or something heh.

It should be plug and play too, so once you install it , and fire up the machine - it should be detected automaticaly - and when you connect you cam to it , by default, a window will open up asking you what program to use with the digital device (your camcorder) , try to use windows movie maker for that its easiest thing to use.

i hope ive helped out.

Answer 2

You'll need to fit Firewire cards. They aren't expensive, or difficult to fit.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/60573 <<< for desktop PC

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/58971 <<< for laptop