Please for the L.O.G, help me!

claxius

claxius

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I am uploading footage onto my computer. Everything is great. I stop for a few days, come back, plug in my fire wire cable to comp and cam, and now my computer is not reading the connection.

I am very afraid it is the camera. I've already checked the comp components with assistance from friends and they think it is the cord or the cam. Got a new cord and still doesnt work. AND when I jiggle the end plugged into the camera the hour glass by the mouse comes on for a second the goes away.

PLease help me out if you know anything, and some solutions. Thank you
 
if you're unplugging and plugging with the computer on and the devices you could cause a short. hopefully that's not what's wrong. shut everything down. conect the camera, turn it on, and then turn on the computer and see if it finds the camera.

if that doesn't work. try the camera at one of your friends. that way you'll know if it's your camera. however turn everything off and then follow the above procedure. i say all this because i was putting together some PCs and found out the hard way the keyboard was shorted out and was damaging the PCs. i know what you're thinking "the keyboard????"

i'm on a few forums and i have seen people post that their firewire connection on their cameras was fried/shorted/etc, but i hope that is not the problem. it could be the card or whatever port you are using on the computer. if it's a card they're pretty cheap to replace. if it's a built-in port on the comp then maybe get a card...they're pretty cheap :thumbsup:
 
first check all avenues...try your camera on someone else's computer. try someone else's camera on your computer. investigate every angle. once you narrow it down and it does turn out to be a short...are you an electrician? or have some circuitry knowledge?
 
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