T60 compatibility with Firewire card

[menace1982]

Hello,

I have a Thinkpad T60 2623-KFU. I bought a Sitecom pcmcia firewire cardbus so that i can capture my video from my digital camcorder.

The firewire card gets detected perfectly. The camcorder as well. But as soon as i try to capture (using adobe premier pro 2.0) my whole system hard crashes. I can only reboot by pressing the power button until power down. I tried with different capture programs but all get the same error. As soon as i give the command to capture, the computer hard crashes.

After reading up on possible solutions to this problem, and trying them out to no avail, i tried out the sitecom pcmcia card with a dell D620 laptop and capturing went perfect! No crashes, works the way it should.

The pcmcia card i have is: http://www.sitecom.com/product.php?prod ... bgroupid=9

The Camcorder i have is: Panasonic NV-DS65

Should i buy a different firewire card? Or is there a different solution to my problem?

Are there any firewire cards that are known to work with the Thinkpad T60?

kind regards,

Menace

[SHoTTa35]

use the card in the cardbus port or ZV port. I think most of these laptops one is just normal and one is for stuff like that.

So try another port and see if that helps.

[menace1982]

Hello,

I only have one cardbus slot, the other is an express slot.

kind regards,

menace

[lefei]

Would like to know too... Express cards tend to be more expensive though, from I see in the market. An express card CF Card reader is like S$90!!

[Tholek]

They should come down in price, but not for awhile.

[faren451]

I have experimented with several pcmia cards. I admit I have tried most of the ones at Fry's. Some of the cards did cause my computer to freeze or turn off. For me, it was a power issue. I use a y chord and plug the second usb chord into my usb slot. I had the identical problem when using portable hard drives. Some of them required too much juice when plugged in without any adapter. iconnect is a very good brand for pcmia cards.