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P2 card hp hdx16 can’t see it
I upgraded my laptop to a new HP HDX 16. Loaded the p2 drivers and everything works fine with the exception of the fact that it can’t see the P2 card.
The computer is running vista home premium 64 and I’m using an addonics card bus to pcexpress adapter. The computer sees the adapter and loads the drivers for it with no problem. When you insert the the P2 card in the adapter the computer searches for the right drivers but can’t find them.
I’ve loaded the latest 64 bit drivers and the computer works fine with the HVX 200 and the Hpx500 through the usb port.
I’ve talked with Panny tech support and was told to run the driver install with the adapter and P2 card inserted. Still doesn’t work. Waiting on a call back from them but thought I’d follow up here also.
My first thought is that the problem is the vista 64. I may need to downgrade to XP Pro.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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I’m not familiar with the Addonics. Is it advertised as working with P2 cards? There may be an Addonics driver needed for P2. We’re on the Mac side of things, but use a similar process. A Duel Adaptor plugs to the Express Card slot of our MacBook Pro and reads P2 cards. Until the latest Mac OS (Leopard), the card required its own driver in addition to the P2 drivers.
John
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The adapter card works fine and we have now gotten the HDX 16 to recognize the P2 A cards with no problem. There is a definite problem with the 16gb E card that we have. The computer can see it fine through USB to the camera but it only works intermittently through the express card port. Not sure if this is a problem with the card or with Vista 64. Since the 8gb cards work fine with it I’m thinking the problem lies with the card.
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The problem may be related to a needed camera software update. Here’s a recent post re problems capturing with E cards. Read to the bottom as there’s an update that’s been posted by Panny for some of their cameras (with more to come).
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/193/876147#876166John
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Upgraded the HVX, upgrade for HPX not out yet. Don’t think that’s the problem as the camera is out of the loop at that point. Just the card and the computer.
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I thought the same, but I believe if an E card was recorded with the old firmware, it won’t offload properly. I think this is why the A card works and the E card doesn’t.
John
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I am having the some problem on a Sony Vaio running Vista 64. The problem actually starts when installing the drivers. At no point does the Setup program give me the option of installing drivers for the Cardbus/PCMCIA slot, even when the computer itself recognizes the bridge for the Express slot to PCMCIA slot adapter. On past machines, I had the option of checking to install the cardbus drivers and was asked to insert the P2 card into each slot I wanted to use. At no point during installation of the drivers did I have that option or was asked to insert the P2 cards. The only drivers available in the Setup program are for reading via USB, 1394 or PCIe.
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So by this logic if I record video to the E card on my hvx which has the latest operating system, uninstall the P2 drivers and reinstall using the HVX with the E card it should work? I’ll certainly give it a try. Nothing to lose.
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Sal.
this is exactly the problem I was having. I discovered that you can direct the install to a specific location where the P2 drivers are using vista 64. At the last screen where it says to insert the disc for your hardware there is a second option. I can’t remember how it was worded by since I’m about to reload it again I’ll post the process if it works.
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Yes! I finally got it to work… Thanks Dan.
I ran the automated “Found New Hardware” setup by inserting the card via the adapter. I checked through the options until I could “point” to a folder on my harddrive. Since I had already run the Panasonic setup, I had the P2 viewer and drivers in the Program folders. I pointed the “Found New Hardware” setup to the “Drivers” folder. Vista set up to work perfectly. Now I can read off the P2 Card (a 32GB R Series) like any plug-in flash drive.
For some reason, the Panasonic setup was not giving me this option when I ran their program.
But its good to know that P2 cards can be read on Vista 64 bit, using a Cardbus Adapter ( I have a Rosewill I bought off newegg.com for about 60 bucks).
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Sal,
Glad it worked out. I just bought a new HP HDX16 to use with our system. I almost had a heart attack when I thought we were’ not going to be able to load the P2 through the express card slot with an adapter. Vista is just different enough to through you those kind of curvew when you’ve been using XP pro
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