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    Firewire to USB

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by KelRem, Nov 9, 2010.

  1. KelRem

    KelRem Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm trying to connect my old Canon ZR 40 camera to my G73JH - x1. I recently purchased a Mini firewire to USB cable off Ebay. When I plug it into my computer I'm getting a USB Device not recognized error. I'm running Windows 7. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.
     
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  2. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    AFAIK you can't use just an adapter cable for that, you need a cable with a microcontroller that converts between protocols. They're more expensive and even then they don't really work that well.
     
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    KelRem Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any other simple solutions? I don't think it's possible to get a firewire card for the laptop as it has no PCMCIA slot...
     
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    You could get a USB video capture device. Besides the cable with the built in controller, I'm out of ideas.
     
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    I had to get a USB video capture device to do what you are trying to do. I went through all the adapters and changers and none worked. One even came with a Win 7 driver that was to make it work. All it did was crash my machine. And tech support for it was a joke, they did not even know about the driver.

    So as I found the only way to do this was with a capture device for the USB and so far it is working fine.
    I my self will not buy anything with firewire in it any more, they are just not used enough in the computer world to make it worth messing with.
     
    BattleNut, Nov 9, 2010
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