What all have you tried doing? Have you plugged in your firewire to the computer and the laptop? Did you turn on your camcorder? Please give more details of what you've tried.

Jas

I've tried the order in which they power on.

Both on buring boot, camera off during boot, camera on before programs launched (MovieMaker, Vegas), camera off before programs launched.

The Device Manager says the Firewire port is working and enabled. It's a built-in port on the 5150.

I have only the camera directly connected via 4 pin cable to the computer.

I plug in / turn on the camera and nothing ever happens, no dialog, no recognition, nothing.

Thanks for any help : )

Thats really odd. I have a 5100 which is essentially the same as yours and all I ever have to do is connect my camers with a 4 pin to 4 pin and turn it on and it is auto detected by my computer and asks me what I would like to do with it. I use Adobe Premier but your computer should detect it no matter whatn program you use. I really don't know what to tell you.

Cobge, i also have a VX2000 but i connect it to my i8200 with no problems. have you tried another firewire cable? PM and we can chat off here about it.

Check under "Network adapters" and look for "1394 Net adapter".

If the Bus controller is working fine, then there might be something wrong with the adapter driver.