Digital Camera linked to Firewire no recognized by XP

At my wits end. I have often used a Sony Digital Camera connected to a Firewire port in my Sony Vaio. It has always worked flawlessly until yesterday afternoon.

I had just finished transferring two tapes to the PC and turned the camera off.

Half an hour later, turned the camera back on to continue the work I was doing. From this point on the Windows XP Pro SP2 has no longer recognized the camera. No Autoplay shows, the Cam does not show on My Computer, and Device Manager shows everything OK -- no yellow or red markings.

I've already tried rebooting, uninstalling/reinstalling drivers and 1394 bus controllers, scanning for new devices. I've searched all forums and Microsoft Knowledge Base. NOTHING!!

Would anybody have any advice? Please help!!!

Thanks

Armando

 

Have you tried using a different firewire lead? It could be that the firewire packed up and isn't letting the connection complete from the camera and the pc/laptop. If you can, try using a USB as some video cameras take USB, if not then I'm completely out of ideas.

Chris

 

Thanks a lot for your input. I have ran out of ideas too. Tried all possible combinations of different PCs, cables, Firewire ports, etc. Nothing fixes the issue.

Thanks again.

 

Hello concisa and welcome to the Board,

Try a System Restore back to just prior to the problem.

If it was a system setting that changed in the course of using the camera to download, that might get you back to the original setting.

Regards - Charles

 

Thanks a lot for your input. Will try.