Can't install Ricoh FW chipset drivers.

[RoverT]

Don't know what's going on! The IEEE 1394 controller has an ! in device manager and windows can't find drivers for it. I can't find the legacy drivers either so i'm completely stuck.

Just bought a firewire soundcard and was hoping to use this 'til i get an expresscard but i'm completely stumped. I have the correct driver on my resources cd and have installed it but nothing has changed. Could it be a fault or something i've disabled (it's enabled in the bios)? Really have no idea what to do here. I may have to install Vista! :shock:

I'm on a Dell XPS M1330 running Windows 7 Ultimate.. Where on earth can i find the legacy driver???

RT

 

[pebbly]

Don't know what's going on! The IEEE 1394 controller has an ! in device manager and windows can't find drivers for it. I can't find the legacy drivers either so i'm completely stuck.

Just bought a firewire soundcard and was hoping to use this 'til i get an expresscard but i'm completely stumped. I have the correct driver on my resources cd and have installed it but nothing has changed. Could it be a fault or something i've disabled (it's enabled in the bios)? Really have no idea what to do here. I may have to install Vista! :shock:

I'm on a Dell XPS M1330 running Windows 7 Ultimate.. Where on earth can i find the legacy driver???

RT

Hi RoverT download the vista driver Drivers & Downloads and install in compat mode http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

 

[RoverT]

Hi pebbly. Tried it but no difference. The drivers install but the device properties tells me no drivers are installed for that device! That makes no sense at all. Seems like something's missing from the equation and i don't know what it is.

It's the first time i've used firewire on this laptop, maybe there's a fault with it. I've read a few accounts of people having problems with firewire on windows 7, could that be what's happening here?

And why is it so hard to find the legacy drivers for windows 7?

 

[pebbly]

Hi pebbly. Tried it but no difference. The drivers install but the device properties tells me no drivers are installed for that device! That makes no sense at all. Seems like something's missing from the equation and i don't know what it is.

It's the first time i've used firewire on this laptop, maybe there's a fault with it. I've read a few accounts of people having problems with firewire on windows 7, could that be what's happening here?

And why is it so hard to find the legacy drivers for windows 7?

Unfortunately Dell don't update the drivers frequently , I will do a search for you on Dells support site to see if I can find any information for you

 

[Bill2]

Have you tried installing the driver manually by pointing the device to the driver files in Device Manager? Try that.

Another thing you can try is to uninstall the device in device manager, then reboot, win7 should find and install the driver for you.

 

[RoverT]

I tihnk the legacy driver is from microsoft. I've googled every possble variation i can think of and searched the microsoft website (where you think they'd be!) but nothing. This is what i'm talking about: Konnekt / Impact Twin in Windows 7

The legacy driver is not on my system, or at least i can't find it. Windows, for some reason, cannot recognise the firewire port. What a palava! Should have stuck with USB! Actually, it's quite a good interface and fortunately runs as a standalone preamp so i can just route the audio from my laptops onboard audio until i figure this out.

 

[RoverT]

Have you tried installing the driver manually by pointing the device to the driver files in Device Manager? Try that.

Another thing you can try is to uninstall the device in device manager, then reboot, win7 should find and install the driver for you.

No but i just did and was informed that windows could not find drivers for my device! They are the latest ricoh chipset drivers but they are from '07.

I tried uninstalling and rebooting also but to no avail. I think the legacy firewire driver will work if i could just find it. It must be available to download somewhere...

 

[RoverT]

Anyone know where i can find these legacy drivers? Or where the actual driver would be on my hd?

 

[pebbly]

RoverT try re installing the chipset driver, the IEEE1394 driver is usually contained in the Ricoh driver ,but sometimes it is in the chipset driver !

 

[RoverT]

RoverT try re installing the chipset driver, the IEEE1394 driver is usually contained in the Ricoh driver ,but sometimes it is in the chipset driver !

I actually ran a Windows 7 upgrade repair last night thinking that i may have disabled something or an update i installed had somehow caused this. I reinstalled the chipset drivers and ricoh drivers last night but it's still got a yellow mark next to it!

From what i've read the legacy driver is something that comes with windows. I can't understand why it's so hard to find it. It must be available somewhere! I'm sure that will give me a working firewire port until i get a bus card.

 

[pebbly]

RoverT try re installing the chipset driver, the IEEE1394 driver is usually contained in the Ricoh driver ,but sometimes it is in the chipset driver !

I actually ran a Windows 7 upgrade repair last night thinking that i may have disabled something or an update i installed had somehow caused this. I reinstalled the chipset drivers and ricoh drivers last night but it's still got a yellow mark next to it!

From what i've read the legacy driver is something that comes with windows. I can't understand why it's so hard to find it. It must be available somewhere! I'm sure that will give me a working firewire port until i get a bus card.

the only reference i can find is in the system files C:/windows/system32/drivers> 1394bus.sys and 1394ohci.sys do you have these on your HDD

 

[RoverT]

RoverT try re installing the chipset driver, the IEEE1394 driver is usually contained in the Ricoh driver ,but sometimes it is in the chipset driver !

I actually ran a Windows 7 upgrade repair last night thinking that i may have disabled something or an update i installed had somehow caused this. I reinstalled the chipset drivers and ricoh drivers last night but it's still got a yellow mark next to it!

From what i've read the legacy driver is something that comes with windows. I can't understand why it's so hard to find it. It must be available somewhere! I'm sure that will give me a working firewire port until i get a bus card.

the only reference i can find is in the system files C:/windows/system32/drivers> 1394bus.sys and 1394ohci.sys do you have these on your HDD

Don't know why i didn't think of that! Still getting windows could not find a driver... which is really odd cause i'm fairly certain those are the drivers in question. I'm starting to think there is a hw issue i recently had a new mobo installed.

I'm going to quickly put Vista on another drive and see if it works. I could run diagnostics but i just really want to get it working as i've spent long enough on this already! I've read about a lot of people having issues with getting firewire devices recognised in windows 7...

 

[pebbly]

I actually ran a Windows 7 upgrade repair last night thinking that i may have disabled something or an update i installed had somehow caused this. I reinstalled the chipset drivers and ricoh drivers last night but it's still got a yellow mark next to it!

From what i've read the legacy driver is something that comes with windows. I can't understand why it's so hard to find it. It must be available somewhere! I'm sure that will give me a working firewire port until i get a bus card.

the only reference i can find is in the system files C:/windows/system32/drivers> 1394bus.sys and 1394ohci.sys do you have these on your HDD

Don't know why i didn't think of that! Still getting windows could not find a driver... which is really odd cause i'm fairly certain those are the drivers in question. I'm starting to think there is a hw issue i recently had a new mobo installed.

I'm going to quickly put Vista on another drive and see if it works. I could run diagnostics but i just really want to get it working as i've spent long enough on this already! I've read about a lot of people having issues with getting firewire devices recognised in windows 7...

I can run a video camera on firewire ok using win7 ultimate 32bit no probs at all, I dont have a firewire sound card to test so Im afraid that I cannot offer anymore suggestions

 

[RoverT]

Thanks. I think it maybe a fault then or maybe that my laptop is a few years old and the firewire port cannot be 'seen' by Win7. Although by all accounts it should work with the legacy driver. Right! I'm gonna install Vista and see if i can't get the firewire port working! Watch this space...

 

[pebbly]

Thanks. I think it maybe a fault then or maybe that my laptop is a few years old and the firewire port cannot be 'seen' by Win7. Although by all accounts it should work with the legacy driver. Right! I'm gonna install Vista and see if i can't get the firewire port working! Watch this space...

How old is the laptop? , mine is an XPS M1710 July 06 model

 

[RoverT]

Really?! Mine is an XPS M1330 '07! Maybe there is a fault then. I'm still gonna put vista on a partition as that's what came with it. Then if there are problems i'll know it's not the OS and hardware related and i can sort it out with Dell.