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Hi:
Here’s a bizarre one.
I thought that Windows 10 had done away with Firewire 1394 drivers.
Yet, when I installed the latest Win10 1909 x64 Pro version (downloaded from MS) as a clean install, there it was.
Note: I wasn’t connected to the internet (avoiding any hardware driver updates) and installed from a USB Flash drive made at an entirely different machine.
Could anyone else confirm this ?
Alex5723,
That’s an excellent article. Thanks.
But while it explains the dropping of 1394 support and how to add 1394 drivers back……it doesn’t explain why on a clean install of 1909 I have the 1394 drivers installed and ready to go. Weird.
From reading the article, unless I can’t read, they should not be included with Win 10.
Thanks.
IEEE 1394 “Firewire” drivers (at least the 1394 “host controller” drivers) are built in Win10 since it first came out back in July 2015, mixer.
Look inside the \WINDOWS\INF\ folder. a 1394.inf file should be there with either a clean or upgrade install.
even my old HP pavilion m8417c media center computer has a 1394 port at the front and back of it and “LSI 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller” is listed in the IEEE 1394 host controllers section of Device Manager on that PC.
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