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    How To Look Up A Firewfire Chip Set Id?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by rsp2rsp2, Apr 5, 2009.

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    I just bought a Gateway P7805U laptop. I am trying to confirm the truth about what chip set it's FIRE WIRE section has. In my device manager, it only says, "OHCI COMPLIANT IEEE1394". I have called Gateway tech support 2 times & each time, they gave me an unsure answer & assigned me a case number for investigation. Anyone out there know how I can confirm for sure what chip set MY unit has? I REALLY NEED IT TO BE A TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SET.
     
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    Vital for Audio recording. The only chip that is stable enough to avoid "pops & clicks" in the audio. Google it & see.
     
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    Not to mention plain old audio fall-outs and in some cases even recognising the audio interface.

    Hmm, that didn't come out right, but the idea was that the TI chip is the only one, that doesn't have a tendency to fall out and unlike the others, always recognises that an audio interface is plugged in.
     
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    The 6860 has the Agere chip (read CRAP). As this series of notebooks all seem to use the same basic mobo (changing out the chipsets to increase bus speed), I will assume (until it's proven otherwise) that the Agere chip is still in the 78xx series.

    You're right, the TI is really the only way to go for any high-rate throughput. The Agere just chokes and pukes. And forget about getting an ExpressCard 1394b from Best Buy. Their cards are Agere also. You will wind up spending around $100 for a branded ExpressCard or around $80 for a generic using the TI chip. I can't comment on the generic cards, but the branded card worked for me in a streaming video application.
     
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