I tried attaching it to another computer and it worked. Thanks. But the problem is that i need the camera to feed into the original laptop. If the firewire is the issue, is it hurting the connection because it is connected by a 4 circuit port instead of a 6. it worked on the computer through a 6 circuit, but the laptop i need it to stream into has a 4 and its connected through a little 6 to 4 circuit adapter on the end of the firewire. Is that the problem? If so how to i fix that?