HP DV8T Laptop not recognizing Firepod (FP10)

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The interface works great on my old HP Media Center Pentium 4 dinosaur. Just picked up an i7 quad-core Windows 7 64-bit HP DV8T laptop. It has a 4-pin firewire port, so I picked up a 6pin-to-4pin firewire cable, downloaded the latest FP10 driver, and nothing... won't sync, just hangs on the red light. The Firepod control panel doesn't see the device, and there is no indication whatsoever that the laptop is recognizing an external device.

I called Presonus tech support and they said right off the bat that it is probably due to the actual firewire port not having the right kind of chipset or something, but I read here that someone with the same laptop at least got his DV8T to recognize the device (even though it wasn't sync'ing... note: I think his post may have also been prior to the release of the Win7 drivers?)
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=292649

Anyone else in the same boat know of a work-around? Need to get back up and running asap...

Any advice would be a huge help... Thanks!
 
Yeah... so, I tried connecting my external hard drive which has a firewire port in addition to usb, and the PC doesn't recognize that either.

I think I may have a lemon here. Gonna try buying a new cable, but if that doesn't work, it's getting RMA'd.
 
Yep. Sounds like you should make some lemonade. :mad:

If it has an express card slot, you could try a firewire express card. But it should still work with the built in firewire.
 
Yeah presonus has very specific firewire chipsets listed on the web site and if you don't have one you're screwed for tech support. I don't know why there is such a difference with FW chips but I know from experience that it makes a huge difference. They do list some PCI FW cards but I've heard that depending on the Laptop the PCIe slot may cause problems. So for me if you're going FW a laptop is not the way to go. At least with a desktop you can add a card, which is almost always required because no one uses a TI chip on the built in FW ports.
 
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