mini dv viar firewire

I have a Medion laptop with Vista Home Premium and recently bought a firewire
card-express34 and a 6 pin to 4 pin cable to get mini dv video onto my
computer, the camcorder is a Sharp VL-DC3H. MM is telling me i have no tape
in and i clerly do. Any help out their please.
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Katoninja

Is the camcorder on AC power (and not on its internal battery)?
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Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

"Katoninja" <Katoninja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EEDB66E6-1730-4227-8F5C-EF2EA40C1DB8@microsoft.com...
>I have a Medion laptop with Vista Home Premium and recently bought a
>firewire
> card-express34 and a 6 pin to 4 pin cable to get mini dv video onto my
> computer, the camcorder is a Sharp VL-DC3H. MM is telling me i have no
> tape
> in and i clerly do. Any help out their please.
> --
> Katoninja

No it's not being powered by battery, but by it's mains/powerpack
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Katoninja


"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Is the camcorder on AC power (and not on its internal battery)?
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
> www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "Katoninja" <Katoninja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EEDB66E6-1730-4227-8F5C-EF2EA40C1DB8@microsoft.com...
> >I have a Medion laptop with Vista Home Premium and recently bought a
> >firewire
> > card-express34 and a 6 pin to 4 pin cable to get mini dv video onto my
> > computer, the camcorder is a Sharp VL-DC3H. MM is telling me i have no
> > tape
> > in and i clerly do. Any help out their please.
> > --
> > Katoninja
>