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| Registered: October 6, 2008 |  Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bentyman: Quote:
<picture of Win 8.1 floppies> Love it! | | | | Last edited: by CalebAndCo |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 824 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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| Registered: July 26, 2010 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 259 |
| | Posted: | | | | Loved the guy's statement at the end of the "How Real People Will Use Win 8" video above!! A question for those of you who are more experienced with Win 7 and 8 than I currently am. My Dell desktop PC runs XP SP3 quite well. As a sideline, I convert videos, film negatives, and slides to digital formats as needed by the customer. I use the FireWire interface (IEEE 1394) to transfer from camcorders that support DV tapes. Also use FireWire with a Nikon CoolScan Film Scanner for high-quality digital transfers from film negatives and slides. My understanding is that Win 7 or 8 no longer include drivers to support the FireWire interface. Without this I am doomed.  Does anyone know if there is a trustworthy third-party set of FireWire drivers that can be installed on Win 7 or 8 to continue to support these devices? I can't upgrade and install Win7 or 8 if I can't support FireWire. Thanks much for any suggestions! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting perryoakridge: Quote:
Loved the guy's statement at the end of the "How Real People Will Use Win 8" video above!! I am a real person and that is not how I use win 8. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting perryoakridge:
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Loved the guy's statement at the end of the "How Real People Will Use Win 8" video above!!
I am a real person and that is not how I use win 8. So am I, and so is my mom whos +60 and it only took her about a minute to learn how to use it. What's next? A video about chimpanzee who cannot drive an automatic since he knows how to drive with a manual? Grendell found two videos about persons below an idiot and now thats he's point of things shoud work? Are these morons even potty trained? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting perryoakridge: Quote:
My understanding is that Win 7 or 8 no longer include drivers to support the FireWire interface. And the source for that "understanding"? |
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 | kd5 | | SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Geek |
| Registered: May 24, 2010 | | Posts: 374 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
What's next? A video about chimpanzee who cannot drive an automatic since he knows how to drive with a manual? Grendell found two videos about persons below an idiot and now thats he's point of things shoud work? Are these morons even potty trained? Wow...  | | | | Time is the fire in which we burn. (Soran) |
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| Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting perryoakridge: Quote:
My understanding is that Win 7 or 8 no longer include drivers to support the FireWire interface. Without this I am doomed. In my experience, when it does not find any compatible drivers installed,, Windows 7 does a fair job of searching though its online driver index and finding one for you to download. In any case, a search for "firewire drivers windows 7" brought up a host of websites, one of the first was Fixing Firewire Problems in Windows 7. Anyway, you won't know for certain until you try. Search for answers online... certainly there are other communities that have discussed this already with all that you need to know. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. | | | | Last edited: by Blair |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | On Sunday I will have time to set up the new system. I'm very excited. | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 824 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
What's next? A video about chimpanzee who cannot drive an automatic since he knows how to drive with a manual? Grendell found two videos about persons below an idiot and now thats he's point of things shoud work? Are these morons even potty trained? By the way, I'm glad you like Windows 8.  | | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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| Registered: May 9, 2008 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've found out because I have my user profile directory on a different drive then my SSD boot drive due to lack of space on the SSD I can not upgrade to 8.1 Instead I get: Quote:
Can't update to Windows 8.1
Sorry, it looks like this PC can't run Windows 8.1. This might be because the Users or Program Files folder is being redirected to another partition. Lots of registry edits and tricks that seem to have about a 50% success rate. But not sure I want to go though all the hassle. |
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| Registered: July 26, 2010 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 259 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
Quoting perryoakridge:
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My understanding is that Win 7 or 8 no longer include drivers to support the FireWire interface.
And the source for that "understanding"? Well to the best of my recollection when Windows 7 was first released, I was sure there were articles that said that the FireWire interface was being discontinued and would not be supported in Win7 and forward. However, when Googling for this, I do not find any non-support issues other than those pointed out by Blair below. Quoting Blair: Quote:
Quoting perryoakridge:
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My understanding is that Win 7 or 8 no longer include drivers to support the FireWire interface. Without this I am doomed.
In my experience, when it does not find any compatible drivers installed, Windows 7 does a fair job of searching though its online driver index and finding one for you to download.
In any case, a search for "firewire drivers windows 7" brought up a host of websites, one of the first was Fixing Firewire Problems in Windows 7. Thanks much for this linked article! This gives me some confidence that I could at least update to Win7 and hopefully be able to continue using the FireWire interface for my legacy equipment. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
Anybody else running 8.1?  | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: October 30, 2011 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,870 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here is mine using 8.1 Pro
Model Name GT70 2OD-039US
Operating System Windows 8.1 Pro
CPU Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ
CPU Speed 2.4GHz; up to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost
Cache 6MB
Screen Size 17.3" Full HD Anti-Reflective
Resolution 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
Chipset Intel® HM87
GPU NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780M
Video Memory 4GB GDDR5
Audio Sound Blaster
Speaker Dynaudio Premium Speakers w/ Subwoofer
Memory 32GB DDR3L 1600MHz
HDD Capacity Super RAID 2 (128GB SSD x 3; RAID 0) + 1TB HDD
HDD Interface SSD RAID 0 + SATA
Optical Drive Type Blu-ray Disc Burner
LAN Killer™ E2200 Game Networking
WLAN Killer™ N1202 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth Yes
Card Reader SD (XC/HC)
Webcam 720P HD Webcam
USB USB 3.0 x 3, USB 2.0 x 2
ESATA No
Video Port VGA x 1, HDMI 1.4 x 1, mDP x 1
Audio Port Mic-in X 1, Headphone-out X 1
AC Power Adaptor Output: 19V DC, 180W Input: 100~240V AC, 50/60Hz universal
Battery Pack 9 Cells
Dimension 16.85” (L) x 11.34” (W) x 2.17” (H)
Weight 8.6 lbs |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote:
By the way, I'm glad you like Windows 8. The guy who made that video must have serious difficulties to cope in his every day life. It just isn't that hard. All these three videos are classic examples of FUD. It took me much more time with manuals learning to use my new washing machine, that it took how to learn Modern UI and Windows Store Apps. If using Windows Store Apps seem to be an impossible challenge, just don't use them. Just use the desktop applications as you did in Windows 7 and enjoy the Win8.1 "under the hood" improvements. I'm not going to list them here since I assume that every one knows how to use Google. |
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| Registered: January 27, 2009 |  Posts: 181 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
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My understanding is that Win 7 or 8 no longer include drivers to support the FireWire interface.
And the source for that "understanding"? I agree, I had to get a new PCIE Firewire card for the new mobo, and Win 7 picked it straight up. No issues. |
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