Capturing video with DV camcorder says "Capture Device Offline"

Just trying to capture video already recorded on my camcorder. The firewire is setup correctly and the options are all right, but the capture window still says "Capture Device Offline".
Somebody help me?!?!?!

http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/cant-capture-dv-hdv-video.html
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    I borrowed a friend's SONY camcorder to shoot some footage. He suggested Adobe Premiere for editing it. I downloaded the trial software and now I'm trying to capture the video. I had to buy a firewire card to connect to my computer. When I load Premiere, I go to the project and try to capture, but above a black screen it says, "Capture Device Offline." I'm pretty sure that my card, cable, and camcorder are all connected properly. I surmised this since when I connected them all, the screen on the camcorder went from saying "16bit" to "DV IN". I've read a bunch of the forum topics on this, but the solutions don't seem to be exactly related to what's going on here. I checked my Device Manager and there's no exclamation mark next to the IEEE 1394... nor its subfolder, VIA 1394 OHCI...
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    I see that this thread is marked as answered, but as I have found a slightly different solution I shall mention it here.
    I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and have installed Adobe PP CS5. I have just tried to capture standard DV from my old handycam and encountered the same problem as outlined above.
    After trying most of the fixes without success I finally worked out a solution that worked for me. Here it is and I hope it helps.
    Connect the camera to the PC using a firewire and when prompted by Windows select edit video in Premiere Pro.
    When PP opens, or you already have PP open, go to File>Capture  and the Capture window appears. At the top you will see the message "Capture Device Offline".
    Here you can test whether or not your device is  connected properly by clicking on the play button at the bottom of the dialogue box which should start the tape playing in your camera. You won't see anything happen in the Capture box .
    Click on the Settings  tab in the Capture window and under Capture Settings  click on Edit...and change the Capture Format from the default HDV  to DV  and click OK.
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    You can also change the Device control settings here, but I have no idea what happens if you don't. I usually check all my settings, especially things such as PAL etc...
    You can later change the Preferences, if you like, by going to Edit>Preferences>Device Control> Options which should avoid you having to do this each time.
    I will just mention ( not strictly speaking related ) that another bug in CS5 seems to be an error message that comes up if you have a lot of scenes and you use split scene, as I do. The message says "SRC\FileManager\FileManagerIMPC.cpp -94".
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    I edit and capture EVERYDAY, nothing has been changed between yesterday and today...NOTHING.
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    I have seen this before, but was with my old standard def Sonycam, not my HDV CAM.
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    Does you Mac "see" the camera, when plugged in and turned on? [On a PC, one gets a little tone and the camera shows up in Device Manager.]
    Do you have another FW cable to test with?
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