Vista - How Vista detects firewire devices

I have a couple firewire 400/800 hard drives. External of course. My
P35-DS4 Gigabyte motherboard dees not detect anything I plug into it.
The USB connections on these very same devices work fine. I have no
other types of Firewire devices at my disposal to test so please do
not suggest a non hard drive based devie test. How does Vista detect
these devices? Is there some service I may have disabled or something?

Thanks.

JR

"JR" <jriker1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Vista should simply auto-detect the devices.
First check to see if it's listed (with no problems) in device manager.

If there is no listing at all...
Check your bios to see if firewire is enabled .
(That assumes the bios gives you a choice)

On Jan 8, 6:15*pm, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxx> wrote:Thanks for the reply. 1394 is enabled in BIOS, Windows shows the
controller in the device manager and says it's working ok. When I
plug any firewire device in nothing happens at all in Windows. No
flickering or anything. Not sure if I mentioned this, however when I
plug devices into the firewire port that are firewire powered, they
power up so I know there is something working there.

JR

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/930495
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"JR" <jriker1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 8, 10:24*pm, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andre...@xxxxxx>
wrote:Thanks for the info. I tend not to be overly optimistic on patches
like this working, however this is not something you can simply
download either. I submitted a request, so will be interested if
Microsoft just gives it to me without a lot of hoopla. I'll let ya
know if anything comes out of it.

JR