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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wouter1971" data-source="post: 816916" data-attributes="member: 84759">I thought i'd share with you my FloppyDTV(s) story so i can help others with the same problem.My configuration:2x FloppyDTV S2 firewire passthrough and then to the firewire PCI card (VIA chip). My configuration has a 10 second delay at detecting the cards when starting TV Server (TV configuration) to prevent problems when detecting cards at resume from hibernation.The problem started about a year ago. The problem the topic starter describes was my case too. Lost cards, became "Unknown" in TV Server Configuration.- Red flashing lights on them when i looked into the HTPC case.- Starting the pc over and over again. Resume and then found the led(s) red, could not start television etc.This drove me crazy.But i could resolve it by rebooting the pc when it happened (bad for WAF), but then saw the cable solution and ordered the special Digital Everywhere cable with capacitor.That did the trick for a while but sometimes the problem came back.But a few weeks back when i bought a thirth FloppyDTV card the problem came back.The thirth card was also connected by passthrough firewire connection. But almost instantly red lights flashing on all cards.Had to find a solution and was afraid the thirth card was faulty.Reversed the passthrough firewire order, could not get the older cards stable again too. Bought a new firewire card based on the Texas Instruments firewire chip instead of the VIA chip based cards randomly available:(<a href="http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Controllers_FireWire/Dawicontrol/DC-1394_PCI/278527/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Controllers&l2=FireWire" target="_blank">Dawicontrol DC-1394 PCI</a>)I used an older firmware (1.0.1) for the cards. This made the older cards pretty stable again, but after a few days the problem came back but not too often.The thirth card was not used anymore, it was not detected anymore no matter what i did. Then i read somewhere to use the 6 pin firewire cable at the bottom. When i used that connection, YEAH!, the thirth card was detected again.That made me come to the conclusion that the top firewire connection and cable could be the root cause of all FloppyDTV issues.I searched the internet for short firewire cables to connect every FloppyDTV card separate to the firewire controller.And only found this shop with short affordable cables (shipped to everywhere):<a href="http://www.parts-data.com/Short_Firewire_cable_6-to-6_pin_IEEE1394a_50cm_CF-66-005.html" target="_blank">Short Firewire cable 6-to-6 pin IEEE1394a 50cm (online shop)</a>When i connected the cards with these new cables separate to the controller they were detected all three instantly.My FloppyDTV problems are realy all gone now, and all stable running now. No detecting problems after a resume anymore too (great for WAF)It seems the bottom Firewire connection on the FloppyDTV cards is the solution.AT LAST!!!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />Hope my story can help others too.p.s. always use the legacy driver, i attached the pdf from the driver how to do it. Last firmware 1.52 and drivers attached too.</blockquote>

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