Can't Activate Recorder. Try Resetting Camera.

This is usually a easy fix based on what I know on Premiere and in comparison to other peoples threads I've seen with the same problem. However, my problem doesn't seem to have the same symptoms from what i've seen.
As the title indicates, when I go to the capture panel I get the "Can't Activate Recorder. Try Resetting Camera".
Both Windows and Adobe can detect when the device turns on and Off, but for some reason, both cs6 and cs5.5 cant access the device for playback. The device is a Sony HVR-M25U.
It works, because before I started using my new rig, which was only a couple of weeks ago.
My Previous Machine picked it up in cs5.5 with no problem, it's a pretty decent machine too. I'm pretty very certain that it still can detect the device with no problems. Only problem is I can't use it until I get a new video card. Or I can remove the vid card from my current machine and put it back into the old one and capture the tape that way, but that is far more tedious and doing that every time a tape comes along would become annoying.
In the Device Control Panel, DV/HDV is selected and in the options, the Check Status Box is Listed as Online.
The Rig I have didn't come with a firewire port, so I bought a PCI 2.0 Firewire Card and installed it. Device Manager has it listed as working correctly.
What do you guys think the fault could be? I'm starting to think it's the firewire card, unless there are other ways to trouble shoot that I am not aware of in Premiere in regards to device capture. I'm almost 100% sure it's not the device. The only other thing it could be is Adobe Pemiere Pro or the Firewire card I bought. Any suggestions?

Other software to try...
SD capture http://windv.mourek.cz/ or http://www.scenalyzer.com/main.html
Do note that the demo version of ScenalyzerLive puts a watermark in the files it creates
- I'm told that the OLD version is freeware... check the download page for details
HD capture http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm
Also, be sure your firewire driver is the one with LEGACY in the title
>windows server 2008
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