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Flex Firewire Driver Does Not Recognize Any Firewire Card in Windows 10 64bit

Paul Rawlings
Paul Rawlings Member
edited November 2019 in FLEX Series (Legacy) Radios
Flex 5000A will not work due to Firewire driver problem with Windows 10

I have an HP EliteDesk 705 G4 minitower computer (AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 2400G) running Windows 10 64Bit. The latest version of the Flex Firewire driver is installed, but it doesn't recognize either of my newly purchased PCI Express X1 Firewire cards: SIIG FireWire 2-Port PCIe (NN-E20012-S2) and VANTEC 3-Port FireWire 400 PCIe Host Card Model UGT-FW200 (same as Vantec UGT-FW200). Both cards have TI chips.

Windows Device Manager shows both cards to be installed and working properly with no driver problems so I believe there is a compatibility problem between the Windows OS and the Flex Firewire driver.

I have an older computer with Windows 7 that I was able to use by installing an older PCI (not express) card. With Windows 7 support ending soon, I am considering updating to Windows 10, but I'm afraid that it will cause Firewire to stop working. Perhaps I should just dedicate this computer for use with the radio and not connect it to the web.

Has anyone been able to find a way to make the Flex driver work with Windows 10?


Thank you

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