Windows x64 Edition & 1394

[Cynagen]

Long Story: I went out the other day to pick up an HD DVR after talking with a cable support guy who said the firewire ports were going to be enabled. (OH JOY!) Well when I got it home, plugged in, xp got nothing.
Checked out the SA8300HD - SARA guide, and checked the ports (page 29 or so), it said 1394 was unavailable. Further searching and I found that the drivers were non-existent in the box.
So I called and made a stink, and mentioned that it was suppost to be -legally- enabled. After being on hold for about 5 minutes, guy comes back, says he learned something new today, and read off a spiel from the 1394 folks, which sounded more like corporate ass-covering than something the 1394-whoever would print and ask to be read, although there were a few things in there that did sound like 1394-whoever wrote it.
Either way, they told me in 48 hours or less my box would be upgraded to enable the firewire. Well lo and behold, about 6 hours later, i'm watching a saved copy of Voyager, and my box tells me it's gonna reboot for an upgrade, and then turns off.
About 10 minutes later I get my box back on automatically, and windows suddenly sees something on the firewire.

WOOHOO!

Bad news though, nothing could be installed, the drivers in the firestb.zip, are for a 32 bit XP, not 64bit (which is what I run), so i'm sitting at square one.

Short Story: Can anyone help me find 64 bit drivers or figure out how to "hack" this install to work on x64?

Any time and effort is appreciated, I also don't mind being a guinea pig for new drivers, always wanted to beta test and break stuff. :p

[timecop]

Nope.
Not going to work.
Remind me again why are you using a 64bit OS in 2007?

Long explanation: drivers in firestb were stolen from a several years old 32bit windows app, were NEVER designed to still be used, and have no support or upgrade path. Thanks.

[Cynagen]

Nope.
Not going to work.
Remind me again why are you using a 64bit OS in 2007?

Long explanation: drivers in firestb were stolen from a several years old 32bit windows app, were NEVER designed to still be used, and have no support or upgrade path. Thanks.

As Homer would say: "Ahh crap."

I use 64bit because I have a dual-core 64bit chip, and I have a number of games with 64bit enhancements, HL2 and UT2k4 to mention 2 big ones, also my 32bit installation went f00bar a while back and takes 20 minutes to boot, and then is barely usable, and I just don't wanna do a repair installation on the stupid thing.

Long fix: Install 1394 controller card into second dedicated "TV Tuner" computer for network based tv watching, use that to tune into the 8300HD over firewire and distribute the HD video over the network.

As Bart would say: "Eat my shorts."

[VinceInSeattle]

I also would be delighted to find a way to record from the firewire output of a set top box to a Vista x64 PC. I plugged a firewire cable between them, got the "new device" messages, but Vista doesn't have native drivers and the ones available on the 'net aren't compatible with x64. Apparently this is no big deal on the Mac - it's plug and play. Was hoping I wouldn't have to buy a new TV tuner card but looks like there's no way around it for now.

[gjvrieze]

Long Story: I went out the other day to pick up an HD DVR after talking with a cable support guy who said the firewire ports were going to be enabled. (OH JOY!) Well when I got it home, plugged in, xp got nothing.
Checked out the SA8300HD - SARA guide, and checked the ports (page 29 or so), it said 1394 was unavailable. Further searching and I found that the drivers were non-existent in the box.
So I called and made a stink, and mentioned that it was suppost to be -legally- enabled. After being on hold for about 5 minutes, guy comes back, says he learned something new today, and read off a spiel from the 1394 folks, which sounded more like corporate ass-covering than something the 1394-whoever would print and ask to be read, although there were a few things in there that did sound like 1394-whoever wrote it.
Either way, they told me in 48 hours or less my box would be upgraded to enable the firewire. Well lo and behold, about 6 hours later, i'm watching a saved copy of Voyager, and my box tells me it's gonna reboot for an upgrade, and then turns off.
About 10 minutes later I get my box back on automatically, and windows suddenly sees something on the firewire.

WOOHOO!


Who is your cable provider??