i've a HP pavilion zt3000 notebook with an integrated IEEE 1394 firewire port. And i've a samsung digicam vp-d5000i camcorder.

I tried to attached a 4-4 pin firewire cable to the notebook and the camcorder. The camcorder display a "DV" icon upon attaching to the notebook. But in my notebook, the windows xp pro with service pack 2 does not detech the camcorder at all. No auto-detection of any kind.

But when i tried to connect the camcorder to a pc with firewire, it works fine. So i suspect my firewire port in my notebook is spoilt, thus i got myself a pcmia firewire card.

Thus from a 6-4 pin cable to connect from the pcmia to the camcorder. But still, it does not detect the camcorder at all.

What could be the problem now??? Am i missing some drivers or patch??? Someone please help. Thanks