Thanks Kemica,
Unfortunately, I had already tried that. What sucks is the firewire chipset drivers, if they are there are not labeled firewire drivers. In device manager it says my IEEE 1394 chipset is installed, working and up to date. I removed it so it would force vista to install the new one and it did the same thing. And the frustrating part is I was using the firewire port a couple of months ago when I had xp. Any ideas anyone? Thanks