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Slow Firewire on Dell Latitude
The last Avid certified laptop we have is a Dell Latitude D800. The firewire port has now completely flaked out on us, intermittently testing anywhere from 1MB/sec to 28 MB/sec. Has anyone had this happen? What might be causing the slow down?
We’re using the same drive enclosures we’ve always used (with good performance in the past), and we have completely rebuilt the system from the ground up trying to get our firewire speed back. This included upgrading the BIOS, chipset, reformatting the system drive, reinstalling Windows, the works. We have not installed any other applications or drivers in the system at all (beyond the most up to date drivers for system resources and onboard devices). Even after all of this, the performance of the Firewire port is sluggish at best.
We cannot just throw a firewire card in the PCMCIA slot, because we are actually using that slot to ingest P2 cards. We’re really dependent on the onboard Firewire port.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
ChrisAustin, Texas
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3 Replies
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Can you think of any changes or software/driver/patch installs that you might have done prior to it starting to act up.
I thought I remembered something with XP SP2 that caused firewire devices to run at slower speeds and the solution was modifying a registry value and might have been resolve later with a hotfix or patch. It might have been dealing with firewire800 devices though.Erik
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Great suggestion. However, this afternoon Dell technical support officially diagnosed this as a bad motherboard on the laptop, and it is being replaced.
Thank you for your input.
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Cool. Let me know how it goes.
Erik
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