My VIA OHCI 1394 IEEE Host Controller

After running a diagnostic test it showed alert for my OHCI 1394 Host
Controller that won't start. And has yellow sign next to it in Device
Manager. I understand this controller was intergraded into the system by
Microsoft. I went onto Microsoft's fix it site to have problem analyzied and
they indicated a driver problemm with it and did a reinstall. It worked
temporarily. But the yellow alerts still nag at me. Now, I don't have a
need to use the OHCI IEEE 1394 port on back of my computer and my husband
doesn't on his either but he doesn't get a yellow error sign next to his 1394
IEEE in Device Manager. I get automatic updates but checked for updates on
this but there was none. Does this affect anything that I should continue
to attempt to repair this? Thanks
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Shiann

Thanks, I can disable it in Device Manager but wondered whether I used it or
not why the error icon? I don't have any firewire device cord of right size
to insert in port to test it to see what happens but would like to know it
would work if ever have a need to use it.


--
Shiann


"smlunatick" wrote:

> On Apr 20, 10:03 pm, Shiann <Shi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > After running a diagnostic test it showed alert for my OHCI 1394 Host
> > Controller that won't start. And has yellow sign next to it in Device
> > Manager. I understand this controller was intergraded into the system by
> > Microsoft. I went onto Microsoft's fix it site to have problem analyzied and
> > they indicated a driver problemm with it and did a reinstall. It worked
> > temporarily. But the yellow alerts still nag at me. Now, I don't have a
> > need to use the OHCI IEEE 1394 port on back of my computer and my husband
> > doesn't on his either but he doesn't get a yellow error sign next to his 1394
> > IEEE in Device Manager. I get automatic updates but checked for updates on
> > this but there was none. Does this affect anything that I should continue
> > to attempt to repair this? Thanks
> > --
> > Shiann
>
> The IEEE 1394 port is also known as Firewire / iLink port. It is
> generally used to connect video camcorders so as to transfer your
> "home videos" onto the PC. It does not cause problems to leave it as
> is. If you are still troubled about it and definitely do not use it,
> you can always turn it off in the PC's BIOS.
> .
>