I am looking at adding an IEEE 1394/Firewire & USB Expansion card so I can transfer video faster and better quality.

Any recommendations? I tried using my USB ports with adapters and so I was able to capture the video, but it is jumpy and the voice track is not sync'd.

I would probably just replace a PCI card that has two USB ports on my system. I have a AMD 1800 with WIN XP Pro running.

Thanks for any input!

Okay... that might work. What mobo model do you have? Did you have a card picked out already, or are you still looking?

This one looks okay... hoping it's withing your budget though.
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1642832&CatId=510

I bought a Zonet ZUC2400 USB2.0 +FireWire PCI Combo Card from New Egg.

It did not slip in very easy, which I thought was strange, but I pressed gently and throught I got it in. When I rebooted, it read new hardware, USB hub and was looking for drivers. I started installing the driver from the CD. It advised that it would reboot after installation.

When it started up, it went to blue screen with Vulfntr.sys error message.

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

F147156F BASE

F1471000 DATE STAMPE

3flba694

0x00000050 (0xF1474000, 0x00000001, 0xF147156F

I'm going to take it out and see if everything else works again ... can't figure it out.

It certainly wasn't "Plug 'n Play" this time! :confused:

I would recomend resetting your BIOS (I'll assume you know how to do this)

If this doesn't work, try taking out the card and booting up again... if you can get into safe mode at least, you can try to use system restore to move back a day or two.

How early in the boot do you get the blue screen?

After installing the PCI card, I booted up once and it started to install drivers for my printer ... that was wierd. Then I installed the drivers for the PCI card and when it rebooted, the blue screen came up right after the "Starting WIN XP".

I ended up taking out the new card. When I started up ... same message. Opened up and rearranged my original PCI cards (one modem, 2 USB cards) and it finally booted up fine.

I have sent an email to see if my MOBO, a Gigabyte GA-7VKMP, will support the card. I have an AMD 1800 processor.

Could there be a conflict with the other USB 1.0 cards? Should I install the drivers before I put the new card in (if I try again?)

I haven't had many issues lately so I had forgotten how much fun it is to determine if my components can all work together.

Oh, I also updated my BIOS.
:rolleyes:

I may sound stupid, but can you have both USB 1.1 AND USB 2.0?

My system crashed, not because of the new PCI card, but the USB 2.0 driver that came on a CD with the PCI card. When my system rebooted after the first time I had put in the card and installed the driver, I assumed it was the hardware. I have taken the hardware out and thought I would try installing the driver before trying to put it back in ... the system crashed again. I uninstalled and we're fine.

I am checking with Gigabyte to see if my motherboard can accept the hardware and the USB driver for 2.0.

Anyone else know?

Thanks!

USB 2.0 is backwards-compatible with USB 1.1. USB 2.0 devices will work on USB 1.1, just at the reduced speed.