VAIO crashes when connected to Video camera

[quango]

Hi all hope someone can help. Trying to transfer some video from a Sony DCR-TRV950E video by i.Link/firewire cable to a Sony VAIO VGN-SZ1XP running windows XP.

As soon as I turn on the camera the VAIO bluescreens with a STOP 0x0000007E error (no driver names are visible) and I have to reboot.

I have checked Vaio updates, have checked windows update, everything is up to date. Googled for this sort of error and searched the forums here - nothing about Firewire problems.

Its wierd - I can't figure out what driver/app on the VAIO is causing it to die. The i.link/firewire/1394 drivers are the original WinXP ones so there should not be a problem.

[tonybeard]

Welcome to the club,
firewire and Sony are a cronic pain in the neck. I've wasted bucks on firewire cables to network computers and connect Sony cameras...forget it. Use a unit like a Dazzle DVC 90 unit and Pinnacle Studio 11 and enjoy perfect zero frame dropped digital heaven.

[quango]

Well thanks for the suggestions...

There's nothing wrong with the cable or the camera - it would appear to be something software based running on the VAIO that's at fault here. No point changing cameras.

I decided to try connecting the camera to the VAIO and loaded on a different PC with a firewire interface and into Microsoft's MovieMaker - loaded about 8Gb of video on the first attempt.

As this PC does not have Premiere on it that might be the cause - perhaps the Premiere drivers installed are crashing the PC?

[MattWilson]

You can uninstall Elements on your VAIO and reinstall it if you decide that that isn't the problem.

To reinstall it run C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements 3\Setup\setup.exe

[quango]

Thanks - will give that a try to see if it's the cause..

of course it then makes it difficult to load the video into Elements!!!