Flex-3000 firewire connection issue cable ??

Marc Lalonde

HI  have buy a used Flex-3000 for a club remote radio project

but have strange issue whit firewire cable when plug cable  
most of time radio green led go on for 1-2 second the go off 
some time not lit at all  and about 1 time on 10 try led stay on 

but even when if it stay on powerSDR not always "see" the radio
once it see it  ,work  until a cycle power 

firewire card was Startech PEX1394A2V  whit  VIA  OHCI chipset
that late PC whit 4 core I5 proccessor and PCI-e  and USB3

any ida ??   

73   Marc  L.  VE2OLM

John

Has the firewire card ever worked 100% ? If not then try using another cable and if still a problem, then try another firewire card. Not all firewire cards will work properly. You can also try another port for the card

Marc Lalonde

got radio only few week ago  and buy card bit later since card that come whit radio was PCI

so have no historical data yet  , have try to change cable but no luck

Steven Hess

The recommended Firewire chipset is a Texas Instruments. Others may have issues.  

Jay Nation

Some of the VIA chip sets had those issues. So it might be the card.

 SDRgadgets

73, Jay - NO5J

Marc Lalonde

HI ok thank 

have order a Siig NN-E20012-S2 FireWire 2-Port PCIe 

so hope it fix the thing ...

Jay Nation

Marc

That should work, it's the same PCIE card that Flexradio is selling in the store. I went with the, PCI version, a Siig NN-400012-S8, also sold by Flexradio, I got mine off of Amazon. Both are TI chip sets. The PCI version because I had a single PCI slot left available in this PC, and wanted to fill it first before filling my PCIE slots. Mine works great.

 SDRgadgets

73, Jay - NO5J