Dynex Firewire 800 Expresscard Adaptor

I was a little worried about some of the negative reviews, but when the card arrived I plugged it in and my Windows 7 laptop automatically installed the required driver. I then plugged in my video camera to the firewire-400 port and again Windows 7 automatically installed the driver and then opened up a video import wizard. So within 5 minutes of receiving the card I was successfully transferring video to my laptop. For reference, my laptop is a Dell Lattitude E6420 (purchased around July 2011) running Windows 7 32-bit. My video camera is an older Samsung Mini-DV type camera (Samsung dv381 or something like that from what I recall).

Very flimsy when it sticks out of the side of the computer and required an additional power supply to work

As noted by other reviewers, this device does not seem to work properly. I have a i5 processor windows 7 64 bit system laptop that is 1 month old, and it did not come with a firewire connection. I bought the Dynex card and tried it. The card is properly recognized by the computer, but when I connected my Song Camcorder through the firewire cable, it did not recognize the camcorder. I took it back to BestBuy (Dynex is a BestBuy house brand so I wonder how this is being sold through Amazon) and tried a 2nd card with the same results. To be sure, I connected the camcorder with the same cord to my desktop, and it was immediately noted and worked fine. So clearly the card has a problem.

Five star seller four star product. Firewire 400 and 800 connection using ExpressCard port. This is a product whose purpose is rapidly fading into a footnote in computer hardware history. The Expresscard port is not included in most new machines however it is useful when encountering older laptops with the ExpressCard slot and no Firewire IO. Tip: Connecting the appropriate wall-wart or line-lump power supply will allow buss powered devices to be used.`

Item worked as described. I'm using it to transfer video from a Sony TRV-820 cam to my firewire-less (surprise to me) Sony laptop. Item was less than half of cost of what brick nmortar retailers where asking.

Used this on my MacBook Pro to connect several external Firewire drives and also my Firepod audio interface for recording. This is great to avoid latency from daisy chaining firewire devices.

Great card, great price. Nothing much more to say. I got it for my Canon EOS 1DS and it has been perfect for it.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. The laptop does not have a firewire or DVI port but it does have an express card slot. I purchased the Dynex Firewire card with reservations; I've read the reviews/commentary. Being a tinkerer I decided to get one cheap from another site that shall remain nameless. I wanted to share how I got my card to recognize my Sony Handycam DCR-HC26 without the use of an AC adapter (the ac adapter didn't work for my setup) and using the 1394a (400 transfer) slot. I also believe that this card has some technical issues with most Sony camcorders; just my opinion. Here are my steps: 1. Insert card in express card slot - software/driver will be loaded automatically. 2. Change the installed driver to LEGACY and reboot your system. This may be enough for some people for their device to run. To change to the legacy driver: a. Go to device manager b. Find the 1394 controller and right click to update driver c. Select to browse your computer for driver software d. Then select "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer" e. This is where you're given the list that includes the LEGACY driver - select and then reboot your system. 3. After reboot attach your camera to the card using the firewire 1394a slot. 4. Turn on your camera giving the card/computer about 30 seconds to recognize the camcorder. At this point my computer DID NOT recognize my device. 5. If your camcorder is not recognized, remove the firewire cable from the camcorder leaving the other end in the card slot. 6. Attach a USB cord (if your device has a USB port) to an available USB slot on your computer and then to the USB port on your camcorder. 7. Now, with the USB cable connected to you computer and device, reinsert the firewire/dvi cable to the port on your camcorder (camcorder should be on). Give the computer time to recognize your device but it should be visible in Windows within a few seconds depending on your system. This might not work for your setup but it has worked for me consistently. Hope this helps someone else. After you manage to get this working with your device the card does as it's supposed to do. I would rate it higher IF Dynex provided some sort of support or information regarding functionality.