I am going to try and find a system restore point, Iam hoping HP has
something in its software that will help me. Everything I have tried
doesn't seem to be working at all...
On Jul 13, 6:45 am, "M.I.5¾" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
> "David D" <netr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1184276993.149142.311780@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I should also mention - the firewire is the INTERNAL 4pin port for the
> > laptop. Interestly enough, I also have a PCMIA firewire card (6pin)
> > that recognizes the camera right away, it is just the INTERNAL 4pin.
> > Also, tried the 4pin cable and camera on another laptop, and it works
> > fine - so the cable and the camera seem to be working ok.
>
> A couple of thoughts spring to mind:
>
> 1. The firewire port has become faulty in some way, and the installer is
> unable to complete its function because it can't fully communicate.
>
> 2. TCP/IP seems to be a right royal pain in the arse. For some reason it
> seems to disconnect itself (software wise) from one some or all network
> ports for no adequately explored reason. A system restore to before the
> point where it stopped usually fixes the problem, but it is rarely a
> permanent solution. On my machine, it is the bluetooth port that seems to
> keep becoming disconnected (and I'm not convinced that TCP/IP is anythingto
> do with bluetooth - but I could be wrong).
>
>
>
> > On Jul 12, 5:18 pm, David D <netr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On my laptop, using XP prof., my firewire is no longer recognized. So
> >> I go into the connection for the 1394, under support and hit REPAIR.
> >> It then gives me this error :
>
> >> Windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following
> >> action could not be complete :
> >> TCP/IP is not enabled for this connection. Cannot proceed.
>
> >> For assistance, contact the person that manages your network.
>
> >> There are checkmarks beside the TCP/IP, so I don't get it. If I
> >> UNCHECK the TCP/IP connection, it asks for a disk for the drivers or
> >> something.
>
> >> Any ideas?
>
> >> PS _ I have already disabled the connection and removed the IEEE94
> >> Bus hot controller from the device manager and rebooted - this did not
> >> fix the problem.
>
> > On Jul 12, 5:18 pm, David D <netr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On my laptop, using XP prof., my firewire is no longer recognized. So
> >> I go into the connection for the 1394, under support and hit REPAIR.
> >> It then gives me this error :
>
> >> Windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following
> >> action could not be complete :
> >> TCP/IP is not enabled for this connection. Cannot proceed.
>
> >> For assistance, contact the person that manages your network.
>
> >> There are checkmarks beside the TCP/IP, so I don't get it. If I
> >> UNCHECK the TCP/IP connection, it asks for a disk for the drivers or
> >> something.
>
> >> Any ideas?
>
> >> PS _ I have already disabled the connection and removed the IEEE94
> >> Bus hot controller from the device manager and rebooted - this did not
> >> fix the problem.