[X4U] iPod, PC, & FW or USB 2.0

[Spoolman Nancy]

Thanks for the reponse, Phil. No, the firewire card did not have an 
adapter to  connect. Never heard of it. However, my son went and bought 
a USB card from Best Buy today. Unfortunately, it still says there is 
no iPod connected in the iPod preferences. When he goes to Control 
Panel/System/Hardware/Device manager, it shows the firewire card and 
USB card. The iPod says do not disconnect and Corey clicks on the icon 
at the bottom (strip or whatever that says "Click here to safely remove 
your device"). He stops the iPod and it shows the name of the iPod, 
Apple iPod USB device, etc. He then ejects it. It just does not power 
iTunes up to transfer the songs. I'm beginning to wonder if there is 
some bios messed up or something. I don't know enough about PC's, but I 
work with two other guys and he's called them. Hopefully one will 
return the call and they can figure it out. He's anxious to test out 
the iPod. Can't say I blame him! Oh well, at least he has a 2.0 USB and 
firewire now!  :)


On Dec 25, 2004, at 11:21 PM, Philip J Robar wrote:

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> On Dec 25, 2004, at 6:47 PM, Spoolman Nancy wrote:
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>> Our son received an iPod (20 GB) for Christmas. He has a PC.   :(   
>> Unfortunately, I didn't bother to open the package or read that a 2.0 
>> USB port or FW port was needed. I found an older firewire card that 
>> someone had given me. I installed it, but obviously it doesn't have 
>> enough umph to power the iPod. It recognizes that the iPod is 
>> connected, except in the preferences of iTunes.
>
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> FireWire cards usually have a place to connect a power cable so that 
> they can provide power to external devices. (Mine has a floppy drive 
> type power connector.)  Does yours and have you hooked it up?
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> Phil
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Nanc

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