DV6629WM vista downgrade to XP complete except 1394

hi all!

with help (Thank you!) from several threads here (even though they were for an intel based chipset) i've completed the downgrade of vista to xp successfully Except for the OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller exclamation point!

using siw.exe i see it's an: OHCI Firewire Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE-1394 Controller. i've tried downloading every ricoh driver i can find and none of them have any inf files showing anything IEEE. the rest of the card reader files are there just no 1394... please help!

thanks!
jb

 

Want to give this a try?

http://www.soft32.com/download_176242.html

cheers ...

 

thanks but that's what looks like a link to a via chipset - which actually links back to microsoft: http://www.soft32.com/download/63-38567/windowsupdate.microsoft.com

but my post shows i have a ricoh chipset...

Bus/Dev./Func. Type Class Type Manufacturer Device Name Sub System Device Vendor Sub System Device Name
02/ 05 / 00 PCI OHCI FireWire Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE-1394 Controller Hewlett-Packard Company

Property Value
Vendor 1180h Ricoh Co Ltd
Device 0832h R5C832 IEEE-1394 Controller
Subsystem Vendor 103Ch Hewlett-Packard Company
Subsystem Device 30CFh
Command 0100h Bus Access Disabled!!, System Errors
Status 0210h Has Capabilities List, Medium Timing
Revision 05h
Header Type 00h
Bus Latency Timer 40h
Minimum Bus Grant 02h
Maximum Bus Latency 04h
Self test 00h Self test not supported
Cache line size 64 Bytes (16 DWords)
PCI Class 0Ch Serial
PCI Class Type C0010h OHCI FireWire

DeviceDesc OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
LocationInformation PCI bus 2, device 5, function 0
Capabilities 0
HardwareID PCI\VEN_1180DEV_0832SUBSYS_30CF103CREV_05
PCI\VEN_1180DEV_0832SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_1180DEV_0832CC_0C0010
PCI\VEN_1180DEV_0832CC_0C00
CompatibleIDs PCI\VEN_1180DEV_0832REV_05
PCI\VEN_1180DEV_0832
PCI\VEN_1180CC_0C0010
PCI\VEN_1180CC_0C00
PCI\VEN_1180
PCI\CC_0C0010
PCI\CC_0C00
ClassGUID {6BDD1FC1-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}
Class 1394
Driver {6BDD1FC1-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}\0000
Mfg IEEE 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller Vendor
Service ohci1394
ConfigFlags 0

Device Configuration File 1394.inf
InfPath 1394.inf
InfSection GENERIC_Install
InfSectionExt .NT
ProviderName Microsoft
DriverDateData 00 80 62 C5 C0 01 C1 01
DriverDate 7-1-2001
DriverVersion 5.1.2535.0
MatchingDeviceId pci\cc_0c0010
DriverDesc OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

Class 1394
IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers
Icon -21

 

it turns out there is No Way to find a different RICOH 1394 driver to resolve this issue. i took the time to reformat my system, load vista, download the hp vista drivers, find and copy out the 1394.inf ricoh info and sys files, loaded my xp ghost back on and try the vista files. it takes the updated files and still has the exclamation point. since it did not correct the problem i copied my default xp files back to their original locations and proceeded.

i do remember however that on one of the pages i searched about someone saying they flashed their system back to F-28 (i will look through my history files and if i can find it i will give them credit here) for others who are struggling with this issue, and there are Lots!

as a long time computer tech (i started in 1989) i tend to be hesitant about flashing a BIOS unless the system is having issues and Always about going backwards! in this case however HP did something in their F-30 - F-32 BIOS versions that causes an incompatibility. i did a search for F-28:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp38001-38500/sp38368.exe

and now the exclamation point is gone and the firewire connects to test devices

with as many problems vista has caused, one can only hope that windows 7 is better but for people who do not wish to go there thank God there's places like this to help people find drivers for XP! again i owe the majority of my success in "downgrading" this system for my coworker to this forum

 

If BIOS downgrade work for you thats fine, however there is a working XP driver for 1394 issue in "old" pavilion.
here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/145598412/Firewire_1.zip.html