Users of firewire ports that are not made with chips by Texas Instruments and maybe SONY often report intermittent or dropped firewire connections, static, clicks, audio dropouts, etc.

I base this statement on many observations of other posts over many years at the Tascam and SONAR forums. Those with problems found that using an add-on PCI firewire card built with Texas Instruments chips corrected the problems. I was one of them, replacing a Creative card that had a firewire port, with a Belkin dedicated one.

The Agere port is built into your motherboard. Who knows, it might work, but I cannot recommend it.


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