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USB 3.0 To Firewire Adapter For Flex 5000a Questions
Chris Tucker
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I bought a really fast gaming computer last week for my Flex 5000a. I just assumed it had a slot on the board for a Firewire Card, but it does NOT. The Pawn Shop does not offer refunds, but the owner is a Computer geek who told me simply to get a USB to Firewire adapter cable, and it will work fine, He did state correctly that USB is much faster than Firewire.
Yet, when I read some older threads on here, we are warned against doing this.
Anyone ever tried this on USB 3.0 with a really fast computer ?
Yet, when I read some older threads on here, we are warned against doing this.
Anyone ever tried this on USB 3.0 with a really fast computer ?
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I am afraid that there are no known USB to Firewire adapters that work with the FLEX-5000 or FLEX-3000. The only option is to install a PCI or PCIe based Firewire adapter inside the PC.1
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There is no way to do this, on this board. It has zero extra slots. The Pawn Shop owner is very technical about computers, so will you please explain to me WHY it will not work, so I can explain it to him ?0
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I am successfully using a firewire to thunderbolt adapter with plug and play results1
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Yes. USB devises transfer data is block (in "chunks") mode but Firewire transfers data by streaming synchronously (in real-time) Thi is a requirement for the FLEX-5000/3000 because it is a real-time audio device. In addition, the FLEX-5000 uses 10 isochronous audio channels that operate at 192 kbps. A USB interface cannot properly handle real-time throughput at thee levels. Many have tried and to my knowledge, and I have been supporting this radio since it was first designed, all have failed.
The FLEX-5000/3000 is very taxing for many native Firewire adapters and not all work properly, which is why it is recommended to use Firewire cards that have either a VIA or TI (Texas Instruments) chipset.1 -
Yes, Thunderbolt to Firewire adapters do work. But not USB.1
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I think you need a Thunderbolt Port for that adapter, and I dont have one.0
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ou do need a Thunderbolt port. I suspect you have an "all in one" type PC that only has USB and possibly some memory card slots, which is why I didn't suggest this option.1
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Well, it has 2 hard drives, one is 1 TB SATA, and one is 128 GB Solid State drive.
Perhaps I could just remove the big hard drive, and run the 5000a off the small 128 solid state drive ?0 -
What do the 'slots' have in them now?1
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2 hard drives, one graphics card. This board has 2 extra slots, one above the other vertically. The Huge Graphics card is mounted in the top slot, and is so large, it covers the empty bottom slot! I plan to try to move this card to the bottom slot, and hopefully, it will free up a slot up top, where the graphics card is currently mounted.
The Pawn Shop offered me a full refund BTW. However, this is truly a heroic computer. It has the AMD Ryzen 7 Processor, and a really really good Graphics card.
My plan is to TRY to make it work, otherwise I face a 2 hour drive back down to Cape Coral Florida from the Tampa area, to get a refund
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Yes, Gas is cheap, but still, I face 4 hours of driving. The Ham I bought the Flex 5000a included a Firewire card too.0
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I'm afraid you're only going to waste more time trying to find a solution to something no one has been able to do for the last ten years. Maybe you can ship the radio back?
Jon
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Why in God's name would I ever ship a Flex 5000a, with 2nd receiver, tuner, and Firewire Card back ?
I Will get it working.
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Gaming graphics card is overkill. And there should be a graphics port on the mother board. If there is no slot available then you could do that. It seems to me that there may be a usable slot available. You need to open up the computer to see what is available. I would think that the fire wire card uses the shorter of the available slot types. You may not need to do that long drive.1
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Hey Chris, what is the model number on the motherboard?1
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Chris, the bottom line is this. Unless you have an open slot to place the fire wire card, you will not get the radio working. Tell the guy you bought the computer from that you must have an open slot for the fire wire. do you know what type of slot your fire wire card needs? PCI or PCIE1
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Does it have a PMCIA slot? If so I have a card that I used with a 5000 in the past.1
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The Motherboard has ZERO extra slots of any kind, unfortunately0
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Here is what is in My Computer 16GB RAM AMD RYZEN 7 1800X 8 CORE 3.6GHZ 120GB SSD AND 1TB HDD Plus an AMD RX 580 Graphics Card.
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If I can see the slots in that picture, it does not look like either slots are PCIE0
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Well, here is the graphics card, that goes in one of the slots on the board, so you tell me ? https://www.newegg.com/msi-radeon-rx-580-rx-580-armor-8g-oc/p/N82E16814137118?Item=N82E168141371180
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That graphics card goes into a graphics card slot, it is not meant to go into the bottom slot. Your fire wire card will not go into the bottom slot as it is not a PCIe slot0
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Sorry, that is correct. The slot the graphics card is in now on the top is not the same kind of slot on the bottom. The graphics card will only work on the top slot. This is not what you want to hear,,but you need a different computer with more options. Most gaming computers are very limited because they are only made to do one thing,,,gaming. Sorry.0
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So Bill, you think the top and bottom slots may be different. I WISH I knew the Model Number of this MSI Motherboard0
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I don't need to know the model number, I saw the graphics card, it goes into a graphics card slot, not a PCI slot1
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But the card is a pci express card, so go ahead and try it on the lower one.0
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