Here's the picture of the motherboard and the location of the PCIe slot.
From what I see, the FireWire card requires a power connection, that you may or may not have. Or may have to get a "splitter" so you can feed two different devices from one power connection.
I have a similar FireWire card (with T.I. chipset) in my desktop for my recording studio.
Thanks guys. Yes, the PCI-e slot is that tiny black one on the far end of the board. And I did need to get a 6" power extender cable to get bus power to the card to power my portable HDD. Mission accomplished; got all my data backed up off that drive. Too bad that USB and Firewire formats are not data sharing compatible. No adapters that I've ever found, at least not cost-effective ones.
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March 8th, 2018 12:00
You may not be able to see the image fireberd posted (I can't see it), so look at page 71 in the manual for the location of the PCI-e x1 port.
And as long as you're running Windows 7, Vista, or Windows XP on the D8400.
fireberd
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February 22nd, 2018 03:00
Here's the picture of the motherboard and the location of the PCIe slot.
From what I see, the FireWire card requires a power connection, that you may or may not have. Or may have to get a "splitter" so you can feed two different devices from one power connection.
I have a similar FireWire card (with T.I. chipset) in my desktop for my recording studio.
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March 8th, 2018 19:00
Thanks guys. Yes, the PCI-e slot is that tiny black one on the far end of the board. And I did need to get a 6" power extender cable to get bus power to the card to power my portable HDD. Mission accomplished; got all my data backed up off that drive. Too bad that USB and Firewire formats are not data sharing compatible. No adapters that I've ever found, at least not cost-effective ones.