Digi 002 Rack: Firewire Link Lost - no 1394 light

[Poop Chilito]

To some people this may be old news, but I received a Digi002 console for free from a friend.My boss gave me a laptop, and the guy at the computer shop gave me a SIIG fire wire express card....All I had to invest was $10 for a fire wire cable.....anyways the laptop would not recognize the 002.I must have tried to fix this issue for weeks.I thought it was the power harness issue,but my serial number has a "G" in it.Then I thought my fire wire card was fried..I eventually gave up and then one day I right clicked on my SIIG icon (UB switch) and a small window popped up and showed driver options.I switched to "Microsoft" and everything has been running perfect.I hope this can help some of the many,many people having connection issues.....BTW I love this console !!!.....No more mousing around for me !!!!

[JoelG]

Yes, using the legacy firewire driver is a good/known fix for a lot of problems with Firewire devices. It is part of the Windows Optimizations.

Joel

[knowtice]

So I had an issue where I'd get hardware buffer errors in Pro Tools enough to render the system useless. All I did was take the cover off and disconnect and reconnect the power harness cable and now it's completely stable. Crazy