Re: Firewire Cards - PCI express Pyro Card

When capturing 2:1 OMF from a Sony PVW-2800 Betacam deck through a standard Mojo, the image in the source window freezes. When you play the clip, the image is frozen, but when you scroll along the image appears to be captured and all there - it just won't play. But these are the least of the problems because then the whole computer (even the mouse) will freeze right up and the only way out is a hard re-boot. Yikes - scary! I tried plugging my Mojo into a different firewire port and it was WORSE - the computer froze up when the Media Composer was loading!!! I have re-installed MC to no avail. I have also been using the system for a DV project and haven't had a lick of problems. Obviously something in my PC is not fit to handle the Mojo & SD. My set up is as follows:

Dell Workstation PWS 370
OS – XP Pro SP2
Intel Pentium 4
3GHz
1.5GB RAM
300 GB NTFS
SATA RAID Controller – Intel 82801FR
OHCI Compliant IEEE1394 Bus Host Controller
a 2 port firewire card, and a 1 port card with audio I/O
(I’m trying to run Media Composer 2.5.3 with a standard Mojo and a Sony PVW-2800 Betacam deck)


Any ideas? What can I do to make this work? Please don’t tell me I should just toss this PC in the ol’ dumpster and start fresh – they don’t pay me enough at work for that!!! :)
Thanks for any advice Roy!