Hello,

I just got an expansion card to add FireWire ports to my
Toshiba Satellite A100 notebook, but I'm unable to make
it work.

The card is an ADS Tech Pyro 1394DV for Notebooks.

The notebook is running Windows XP SP2 (the one that
came with it), and the system simply does not see any
new hardware.

ADS's support site indicates that IRQ Steering has to be
enabled (under Device Manager, System Devices, PCI
Bus), but there is no such option. They warn you about
the possibility of the option not being there, and indicate
that one should contact the notebook's manufacturer for
instructions on how to enable that. But Toshiba support
area no longer includes this "old" model :-(

So I'm hoping that someone out there may be familiar
with this and could show me the trick or hack necessary
to do this? (well, or some way to make the card work?)

Thanks,

I'm putting this out for my brother. He's having problems with his
system shutting down. It happens a few seconds after booting, and he
can't even get into the BIOS!

Motherboard
BFG Tech BFG680i SLi LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W
Dual-Core Processor

Power Supply
Thermaltake Toughpower W0104RU ATX12V / EPS12V 650W Power Supply

Memory
Corsair XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual
Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

Hard Drives
Two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording
Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Graphics
Two BFG Tech BFGR76256GTOCE GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI
Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card - Retail

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