On 15 Jan 2005 22:03:40 -0800, corre_paul RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
>Is the firewire port on your desktop PC on the case or is it a firewire
>Card or straight from the motherboard?
>
>The reason being that there seems to be unreliable connections on
>firewire ports on cases that in turn are connected to headers on the
>motherboard.
Thank you for the reply .
The desktop PC has both a firewire port direcly from the m/b and also
from the case top to headers on the m/b in order to facilitate
connecting these peripherals without having to get around the back of
the case . I'll try both of these again and see whether there is any
difference in effect.
One of the reasons for my initial question on this subject was that ,
until recently , the only occasion I have had to use a firewire
connection was with the external CD-Rom supplied with my laptop and
the laptop.
It was when I tried to connect this drive to the PC's firewire port
out of curiosity that I discovered this problem.
I then began to wonder whether this was a fundemental difference
between a laptop-supplied peripheral and one designed to work with a
PC - perhaps these are incompatible in design ? Do you know whether
this is a possibility ?
I'll post back with any results of significance .
B.N.
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