JV3 Firewire is not working.

[heyskull]

I have a problem with my JV3-160s.
After plugging my laptop which did not have a Texas Instrument firewire card it keeps throwing a Error 20 code.
I believe I have fried the firewire card as I have been told they are really fussy.
Question is can I run it of the parallel port using an Ethernet print server ?
My old Graphtec JX2150 ran this way and made it accessible over the network.

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[SightLine]

A different brand firewire card should not fry it but yes the firewire controller in there is finicky and known to fail over time. You can connect the machine via parallel but it is ungodly slow. Error 20/21 are related to the firewire board. I'd try a different cable, try it connected to another computer, etc. Worse comes to worse find a used firewire board and/or ship the one you have off to Macmedia in the US to get repaired. It is literally almost not worth running on parallel.

 

[heyskull]

I thought running a print server over the ethernet made the parallel connection faster.
I found it was always much faster on the print server than if it was just connected directly from the PC to the parallel cable when running the Graphtec.

As for repairing the firewire card I have been contacted by a company in China called Inkmed.
They reckon they can repair my firewire card for more than half the price of Macmedia.
Has anyone used this company to repair their card?

Thanks
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[MikePro]

inkmed knows what he's talking about, but he can only offer to repair what you feel needs to be fixed. hope you've got yourself a proper diagnosis.

 

[heyskull]

Good news I changed the firewire cable and it is up and working again.

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