Desktop Computer Review: SYBA Low Profile PCI-E 2 x 1394b / 1 x 1394a Card [SD-PEX30009] Review

I hesitated buying this as I saw the one and only review was bad, but went against my better judgement and ordered it anyway.I installed the card, booted my PC (Vista 64-bit), and Vista loaded drivers for it.I plugged in my firewire device and nothing happened (Windows didn't detect it, and my device did not seem to detect it was plugged in).The flyer that came with the card says to install the drivers even if Windows installs a native driver, so I ran the installation from the included CD.Halfway through the installation, my PC crashed (blue screen).When it rebooted, it blue screened again before going into Windows.I rebooted again, and booted from Last Known Good config, and my PC is okay again.I am returning this card as it does not appear to work with my PC.

Long story short, if you can get it to work with your PC, who knows -- it may be a great card.However, it doesn't work on mine, and apparently on one other person's, either.So, one star.Both the description on Amazon and the included documentation state it is compatible with 64-bit Vista, but apparently not on mine.

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Product Description:
1-lane (x1) PCI-Express with transfer rate 2.5Gbps Full Duplex channel. Using with TI XIO2213 chipset. 2x 1394B firewire ports + 1x 1394A firewire port + 1x 1394A firewire internal header. Compliant with PCI-Express Revision 1.0a. Support provisions of IEEE Standard P1394b-2002. Compliant with 1394 Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) specification Revision 1.1 and 1.2 draft. Support 800 / 400 / 200 / 100Mbps transfer rate. Fully Plug and Play and Hot Plug supported. Fully backward compatible to 1394a specification. Compliant with IEEE 1394a-2000 and 1394-1995 standard for a High-Performance Serial Bus. Fully interoperable with Firewire, iLink and SB1394 implementation of IEEE 1394 standard. Equipped with Bilingual IEEE Standard 1394b-2002 ports for 800Mbps data transferring. Package Includes: PCI-Express IEEE 1394B firewire controller card; Standard PCI-Express bracket; User Manual; Driver CD. Supports Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, Server 2003, XP 32/64-bit, Vista 32/64-bit, Mac OS. Manufacturer Part Number: SYBA SD-PEX30009.