Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Firewire/1394

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External Enclosures Discuss, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Firewire/1394 at CD and DVD Writers forum; There seems to be a bug in Windows XP Service Pack 3, specifically with the file sbp2port.sys (used for communication with Firewire/1394 devices), that will often cause XP to hang, especially at boot time. The solution is to roll back to the version of the file included with Service Pack

negritude (MyCE Resident): Posts: 3,837; Posted: 26-12-2008

There seems to be a bug in Windows XP Service Pack 3, specifically with the file sbp2port.sys (used for communication with Firewire/1394 devices), that will often cause XP to hang, especially at boot time.

The solution is to roll back to the version of the file included with Service Pack 2.

You can find a quick explanation of the fix here:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/.../msg05327.html

I specifically had problems using the Firewire port on external combo Plextor drives with WinXP SP3, until I reverted to the older version of sbp2port.sys. Once I did that, the problems went away.

The following thread talks more about this and similar issues:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...-fb1b590ff083/

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mciahel (Senior Moderator): Posts: 12,650; Posted: 26-01-2009

Thanks for that information

There seems to be a hotfix available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955356

Michael

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