[lurked_for_a_decade]

Try bringing up movie maker as if the device has been recognized and do a capture anyway. The device manager may see it but not pop up a dialogue that asks what you want to do. Instead of waiting for a dialogue when you plug in the firewire, just assume the OS sees it and start a capture anyway from an already started movie maker or your favorite capture program manually.

[raybbr]

Try bringing up movie maker as if the device has been recognized and do a capture anyway. The device manager may see it but not pop up a dialogue that asks what you want to do. Instead of waiting for a dialogue when you plug in the firewire, just assume the OS sees it and start a capture anyway from an already started movie maker or your favorite capture program manually.

I tried that. When I click on capture it says, "Video capture device not detected...."

The PC is not recognizing the camera. I know it's driver related problem. In the many forums I lurked yesterday there seems to be no solution.

There is this that I forgot to include in the thread post:

Just incase anyone is reading this , i have it working now. Had to
work the SP1 Firewire drivers in.


Go to C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386 in the sp1 cab copy out the
following files

1394bus.sys
arp1394.sys
nic1394.sys
ohci1394.sys

replace the new versions of them in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache
and C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers

reboot

this should fix it.

Thanks to adam in MS Forums From here.

I can't change the drivers without XP automatically reverting them.